Tamil Nadu’s Hindu activist arrested for appealing to the Hindus to buy only from Hindu shops during the Diwali festival

(Left side) Shakhtivel, a worker of the ‘Hindu Munnani’ Organisation

Chennai – Shakhtivel (32 years) a worker of the ‘Hindu Munnani’ Organisation was arrested for allegedly trying to promote enmity between two communities in society. The Court has ordered to keep him in Judicial custody. Shakhtivel the district co-ordinator of Karur District of Hindu Munnani, is a resident of Vengamedu Jyothidar Street. He distributed pamphlets appealing that Hindus do their Diwali purchases from Hindu-owned shops. In the pamphlet, he had said that before buying please see if there are pictures of Hindu Deities in the shop.

Tamil Nadu: Man arrested for asking people to buy only from Hindu shops for Diwali https://t.co/5EmE0mQjTw

— OpIndia.com (@OpIndia_com) October 16, 2022

For this, he has been arrested under 153 A (increasing enmity between religions, castes, birthplace, residence, language etc), and 505 (statements instigating people) of the Indian Penal Code.

Editorial viewpoints

• When will the Hindus realise that in this country it is crime to appeal to Hindus to patronise Hindus ? This situation makes the establishment of Hindu Rashtra inevitable.
• What else can happen in Tamil Nadu, which has a Pro-Muslim atheist Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) Government ?