"Uniform Civil Code should be first introduced in the Hindu religion. Every person including Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes should be allowed to perform pooja in any temple in the country," Elangovan said.
Speaking on whether the Americans do not know the situation that prevails in India, she said, "It is not possible for anyone not to know what the truth is. We are living in the times of the internet and the news is known to all. So everyone knows the truth."
"It is not law and order breakdown to be controlled by police and army or Assam rifles. It is a failure of the governance in the state and the union government," Tiruchi Siva said after the all-party meeting on the situation in Manipur on Friday.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) President, MK Stalin, said all like-minded Opposition parties need to come together with a single-pointed goal -- to defeat the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in next year's Lok Sabha elections.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said that "duplicity of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin's character is unacceptable" as the latter is now opposing the arrest of his fellow minister Senthil Balaji while the DMK president was the one who called him "corrupt" in the past.
The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) has expelled its speaker Sivaji Krishnamurthy from all party posts, including the primary membership as the leader sparked a row after his alleged 'derogatory' remarks about BJP leader Khushbu Sundar.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader and member of National Commission for Women (NCW) Khushbu Sundar on Sunday slammed the DMK party over its speaker Sivaji Krishnamurthy's alleged remarks on her, saying "Tamil Nadu CM has no guts to speak over the matter".
In a reaction to the arrest of BJP Tamil Nadu state secretary SG Suryah, the AIADMK IT Wing zonal secretary and spokesperson Kovai Sathyan on Saturday said that the DMK is using police force to silence the voices of opposition and the common man.
Tamil Nadu state BJP president K. Annamalai condemned the incident saying that Surya's only mistake was to expose the nasty double standards of the communists, allies of DMK