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"Alleging that BJP was enforcing Sanatan Dharma that rejects equality, freedom and brotherhood in the country, VCK had named the convention "Save Nation" from the hands of RSS and BJP. DMK president M K Stalin said the meeting had turned out to be an event to oppose Sanatan. "The Sanatan forces came to power. There is no threat from Pakistan and China but from the rulers of the country. The second war of independence is the election in May this year," he said. "If we are called anti-national for opposing BJP, we wholeheartedly accept the title," said Stalin calling for defeating Modi at the Centre and chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami in the state."
"DMK has never stood against or will ever stand against anybody's religious sentiments or devotion. Both spiritual and rationalist campaigns can co-exist here."
"They (the BJP) think that the people of Tamil Nadu will vote for them if they quote Thirukkural, celebrate Pongal and construct a temple in Ayodhya. They haven't understood us. This is Periyar's land, Anna's land and Kalaignar's land."
"SDPI leader Nellai Mubarak requested to include the Prophet Muhamed in the syllabus. Iām happy to say that it has already been included in the Tamil Nadu Education Syllabus."
"If Muslims face trouble, the first political outfit that comes to your support is the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.