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TN: HMK leader Arjun Sampath drapes statue of Tamil saint-poet in saffron
Leader of Hindu Makkal Katchi (HMK) Arjun Sampath draped the statue of Tamil saint-poet Thiruvalluvar in Pillaiarpatti with a saffron shawl and applied sacred ash on the forehead and biceps and put a rudraksha chain around his neck.
Leader of Hindu Makkal Katchi (HMK) Arjun Sampath on Wednesday draped the statue of Tamil saint-poet Thiruvalluvar in Pillaiarpatti with a saffron shawl and applied sacred ash on the forehead and biceps and put a rudraksha chain around his neck.
Sampath garlanded the statue and also prayed before it.
The statue was defiled a couple of days back by some miscreants.
The desecration came after Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) president MK Stalin on Sunday termed the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) attempt to saffronise Thiruvalluvar to grow the party in the state as "Tamil betrayal".
MK Stalin was reacting to a tweet by the BJP's Tamil Nadu unit which posted a portrait of Thiruvalluvar in a saffron 'dhoti' with sacred ash on his forehead and biceps.
Along with the image, a couplet by Thiruvalluvar questioning the use of education for a person if he/she didn't pray at the god's feet was also posted.
