NEW DELHI: BJP on Tuesday celebrated the Madras high court order as a “big victory” for Hindu dharma, justice for devotees and “slap for the appeasement politics” of DMK and its allies. Union minister Piyush Goyal, who is BJP’s in-charge for Tamil Nadu polls due in a few months, slammed the state govt over its likely move to appeal the order, saying it is a continuation of its “anti-Hindu” politics and people will teach it a lesson the same way they had humbled the INDIA bloc in Bihar. Goyal seized on the division bench decision to launch a broadside against the Opposition with an eye on the BMC polls in Maharashtra on Jan 15, noting that MPs of Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT) and NCP(SP), besides DMK, were signatories to a notice in Lok Sabha for a motion to remove Madras high court judge GR Swaminathan, who had originally passed the order upheld by the division bench. Uddhav Thackeray has turned “anti-Hindu” and given up on the ideals of his father Balasaheb Thackeray, he alleged, asserting that people of Maharashtra who have faith in Hindutva will never vote for anti-Hindu parties. As many as 107 MPs, including Priyanka Gandhi Vadra of Congress, had submitted a notice to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla against Justice GR Swaminathan during the last session of Parliament. The Speaker’s office is looking into the notice.
