BJP compares Udhayanidhi Stalin with Hitler

New Delhi: Following the remarks by DMK minister Udhayanidhi Stalin on Sanatana Dharma, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) drew parallels between the DMK leader and Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.

The BJP, in a veiled swipe at the son of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin, said that the leader's remark is “unadulterated hate speech” and alleged that his comment was a call for ‘genocide’ of 80 per cent of the country that follows Sanatana Dharma.

“There is an eerie similarity between how Hitler characterised the Jews and how Udhayanidhi Stalin described Sanatan Dharma. Like Hitler, Stalin Jr also demanded, that Sanatan Dharma be eradicated… We know how Nazi hate culminated in Holocaust, killing approx 6 million European Jews and at least another 5 million Soviet prisoners of war and other victims,” the party posted on its official account on ‘X’.

Further, hitting out at the newly formed opposition bloc, the party said that Congress and INDIA coalition support for ‘Stalin’s bile is most disconcerting’.

Udhayanidhi Stalin, earlier on September 2 called for the 'eradication’ of the Sanatan Dharma and equated it with diseases like dengue and malaria, inviting sharp criticism from BJP leaders. Udhayanidhi Stalin, however, later accused the BJP of ‘twisting’ his statement and spreading fake news while adding that he is ready to face whatever cases are filed against him.