FIR Against BJP's Amit Malviya In Tamil Nadu Over 'Distorting' Udhayanidhi's Sanatan Dharma Remark

A a case has been registered against BJP's Amit Malviiya under IPC sections for deliberately misrepresenting Udhayanidhi’s remark to cause disharmony and create enmity among different sections of people.

New Delhi: An FIR has been registered against Amit Malviya, the in-charge of BJP’s IT department in Tamil Nadu’s Tiruchirappalli for distorting state’s Youth Welfare Minister Udhaynidhi Stalin’s remark on Sanatan Dharma, news agency PTI quoted police as saying on Wednesday. Speaking to PTI, police said that a case has been registered under IPC sections for deliberately misrepresenting Udhayanidhi’s remark to cause disharmony and create enmity among different sections of people.

According to the complaint filed by the DMK with the Tiruchirapalli police, Udhayanidhi Stalin had said in a speech at an event held by the Tamil Nadu Progressive Writers Forum that Sanatan Dharma should be eliminated like mosquitoes, malaria, dengue and c corona. But it claimed that Malaviya distorted this and posted on the social media platform that Udhayanidhi Stalin had demanded a “massacre of Hindus”.

Udhayanidhi Stalin, son of Tamilnadu CM MK Stalin, and a minister in the DMK Govt, has linked Sanatana Dharma to malaria and dengue… He is of the opinion that it must be eradicated and not merely opposed. In short, he is calling for genocide of 80% population of Bharat, who… pic.twitter.com/4G8TmdheFo — Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) September 2, 2023

The DMK and the BJP-RSS alliance are at loggerheads over the remark of Udhayanidhi Stalin and Union Home Minister Amit Shah had also stated that Udhayanidhi Stalin had advocated for “Hindu genocide”. The verbal clash between DMK and BJP leaders has intensified since the remark of Udhayanidhi Stalin and a poster war has also ensued.