Here I share what I witnessed about the uproar concerning the remarks of Rajinikanth on Periyar.The new film 'Darbar' by Rajinikanth washed out in Hindi, but that does not mean that on Twitter or national politics he can not trend. The new uproar is over his remarks at the .

50th anniversary celebration of Thuglaq, a Tamil political newspaper, about Periyar E. V. Ramaswamy.Referring to how Thuglak wrote about the intellectual patriarch of Tamil Nadu political parties such as DMK (Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam) and AIADMK (All India Anna Dravida Munnetra
Kazhagam), Rajinikanth, who floated his own political party, when he organised a rally in Salem in 1971 where Hindu holy deities were allegedly displayed in a lewd way.This is how the actor mentioned the incident at the Thuglak event when he was speaking:
"In 1971, in Salem,
Periyar organised a rally featuring the undressed images of Lord Sriramachandramoorthy and Sita with a sandal garland. No other source wrote something about the protest, but Cho printed it on the front page of the paper and denounced it vehemently.Because of the publicity, the
ruling DMK government at the time got a bad reputation. DMK confiscated these copies of Thuglaq because they did not want others to hear about the protest."Many Dravidian groups staged protests and filed complaints with the police against Rajinikanth saying he "insulted Periyar."
But the actor refused to apologise saying "I didn't say something out of imagination or anything that wasn't there. It was corroborated by Lakshmanan (then Jan Sangh and now BJP leader) who participated in a dharna (in 1971),So, what really happened at the Salem rally in 1971?
The rally featured "obscene images of the birth of Lord Muruga, penance of sages, and Mohini Avatara, a 10-foot long image of Lord Rama," according to the national English newspaper, The Hindu, that "dozens of people kept beating with chappals." The study also confirms the
Today no politician in whole country can dare to repeat such non sense. The champion of freedom of expression SWAMI DAYANAND acknowledged in Satyarth Prakash that
involvement of Periyar in the procession.The rally was part of Dravida Kazhagam's 'Superstition Eradication Meeting'
The rally passed a resolution asking "the government to allow free criticism of religious practises of individuals of different faiths, including Islam
Christianity, and Hinduism."
But why was it done by Periyar?
Periyar (a name meaning 'valued' in Tamil) carried out a series of
controversial demonstrations including smashing or garlanding the burning of Hindu gods' idols with shoes.
Cho and the Thuglak of his Srinivasa Iyer Ramaswamy was a comedian, satirist, and politician, or Cho Ramaswamy, as he is referred to in the newspapers.
His 1968 "Muhammad bin Tughlaq" satirical play was so popular that Cho launched a Tamil weekly news magazine of the same name in 1970. Till his death in 2016, he remained Thuglak's publisher.

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