"There are a significant number of people who believe in that ideology, following it and it's a disciplined way of life. They think that Sanatan means only caste system. They project only in that way. So many good things are there," she said.
Amid the firestorm of protest over his son Udhayanidhi Stalin's rant against Sanatan Dharma, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Friday launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying his actions were in violation of the Constitution.
Amid a nationwide row, erupted after Tamil Nadu Sports Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin's remarks on Sanatana Dharma, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday said that "not here to say on anyone's religion as religion and politics are two different things.
"They (the opposition) are making a hue and cry that our country is being called Bharat. But the 'Bharat' name was not created by Narendra Modi...Bharat Varsh was created by Lord Krishna," the Jharkhand Governor said speaking to reporters.
"We have formed the INDIA alliance. So the BJP is nervous. They are saying something or the other...," Lalu Prasad Yadav said speaking to reporters on Thursday.
"Constitution allows us to use India as well as Bharat. We want to know why the chief minister is misleading the people... We do not know what is their motive," BJP's state General Secretary MT Ramesh said.
The controversy created by "Sanatana Dharma" has created a political slugfest in the country. The political rival NDA and INDIA alliance are taking a potshot at each other after Tamil Nadu minister Udhayanidhi Stalin equates 'Sanatana Dharma' with "mosquitoes, dengue, malaria, fever and coro
Former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Digvijay Singh has said that the Bharatiya Janata Party is politicizing the India-Bharat matter because they want to divert the attention from big issues like inflation and unemployment.
The former president of the now-disbanded Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) and BJP leader, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, on Thursday came down heavily on DMK leader Udhayanidhi Stalin over his rant against Sanatan Dharma, saying leaders like him were "ignorant fools".
"When there is a spiralling of prices of essential commodities and deterioration of law and order in Tamil Nadu, rather than addressing the day-to-day mundane issues of the people, talking about the beliefs of the majority and mocking it on an open platform clearly shows that is what they do
Union Minister Prahlad Singh Patel on Thursday hit out at the Opposition over Tamil Nadu Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin's remarks on 'Sanatana Dharma', adding that this is the "nervousness" of the opposition.