Sorry, I will not apologise: Rajinikanth amid Periyar rally remark row

The top actor said the idols of Lord Ram and Sita were taken out without dress and the deities also featured a garland of sandals in a rally led by late Periyar

Current Affairs:Days after a Dravidian outfit requested a statement of regret from him for his remarks on a meeting taken out by social reformer Periyar decades prior, Superstar Rajinikanth on Tuesday attested that he will neither express lament nor delicate a conciliatory sentiment and kept up that his comment was genuine.

Indicating clippings from magazines and papers, the top entertainer said the icons of Lord Ram and Sita were taken out without dress and the divinities likewise highlighted a laurel of shoes in an assembly drove by late Periyar E V Ramasamy in 1971.

“A contention has developed that I said something that didn’t occur. Yet, I didn’t utter a word that didn’t happen. I just said what I heard and things that showed up in magazines. Apologies, I won’t express lament or apologize,” he told correspondents outside his Poes Garden living arrangement.

Further, he stated, “I didn’t utter a word out of creative mind or something that was not there. Lakshmanan (at that point Jan Sangh and now BJP pioneer) who partook in a dharna (in 1971) has authenticated it,” he said.

On the 1971 meeting – in which Hindu divinities were supposedly taken out stripped the entertainer expressed such things that occurred in the past ought not be raked up over and over.

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