00:00 Amid an ongoing row over Sanatan Dharma, an FIR was registered against Tamil Nadu Youth
00:07 Welfare Minister Udayanidhi Stalin and Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge's son Priyank
00:13 Kharge.
00:14 Police said that the FIR was registered for allegedly outraging religious feelings.
00:20 The FIR against the DMK leader and the Karnataka minister was filed in Uttar Pradesh's Rampur
00:25 after a complaint from advocates.
00:28 The police said that Stalin was booked for his call to eradicate Sanatan Dharma and Kharge
00:33 for backing his remark.
00:35 Udayanidhi Stalin, son of Tamil Nadu CM M.K Stalin, created a massive row after he said
00:42 that Sanatan Dharma is against equality and social justice and therefore it should be
00:47 eradicated.
00:48 He also compared the Sanatan Dharma to the coronavirus, malaria and dengue illness and
00:53 said that such things should not be opposed but eradicated altogether.
00:58 He said that one cannot oppose these diseases but has to eradicate them.
01:03 He asserted that this was the way one should eradicate Sanatan Dharma.
01:07 The two were booked under sections 295(a) which is deliberate and malicious acts to
01:12 outrage religious feelings and 153(a) which is promoting enmity among different religious
01:18 groups of the Indian Penal Code or IPC.
01:22 The FIR was registered on the basis of a complaint filed by lawyers Harsh Gupta and Ram Singh
01:26 Lodi.
01:27 Two lawyers complained that Udayanidhi Stalin's remarks on Sanatan Dharma had hurt their sentiments.
01:34 In the midst of a national controversy sparked by his remark on the Sanatan Dharma, the DMK
01:40 leader was involved in another controversy as he brought up the subject of discrimination
01:45 by bringing up Dronacharya and his treatment of Eklavya in the epic Mahabharata.
01:51 He also took a sweep at the central government for inviting President Draupadi Murmu for
01:55 the inauguration of the new parliament building and said that it was an example of Sanatan
02:00 caste discrimination.
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