Ayodhya: TN Govt denying permission for live telecast in Nagercoil, FM alleges, citing a police notice

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman continued her attacks on the DMK regime in Tamil Nadu for what called denial of permission to put up screens to show live telecast of events at Ayodya.

"In the Thovalai Murugan Temple, located in Nagercoil, permission is being denied to put up LED screens for live telecast. Order by police seen below. No watching@PMOIndia citing any law and order situation that “might” arise," the FM said in a post on social media platform X.



The post received many responses, one of which suggested that the aggrieved persons move the courts and get a stay order to the police notice.

TN BJP president K Annamalai posted a recorded conversation between a government official and a devotee where the official "mentions explicitly that they have received oral instructions not to allow any activity inside the Temple premises concerning Pran Pratishth," and said the minister concerned has a lot to answer.

The DMK government was unofficially claiming law & order issues to justify ban on live telecast, Sitharaman had alleged in a series of posts on social media platform X. The FM called it a 'false and fake narrative’ as there were no such issues on the day of the Ayodhya verdict. Not even on the day when PM Narendra Modi laid the foundation, anywhere in the country. “The groundswell and the voluntary participation of people to celebrate ShriRam in Tamil Nadu has rattled the anti-Hindu DMK,” the FM added.

In Tamil Nadu, there are about 200 temples for Lord Ram, but the government has not allowed puja/bhajan/prasadam /anna danam in the name of Ram on Monday. The police were stopping privately held temples from holding events. Police are threatening to rip off pandals, Sitharaman said, while strongly condemning what she called anti-Hindu, hateful action.

Annamalai said the DMK government has taken its anti-Sanathana Dharma stand to an extreme level by imposing a blanket ban on conducting special pooja in temples during the Pran Prathikshtha in Ayodhya.

Tamil Nadu, a place of historical significance during Ramayana, has now been shadowed by shallow-minded administrators of the state, he said in a post on X, while adding that the party state unit would perform special poojas and bhajans at all temples in the state on Monday. The temples in TN, he said, “are not the property of the Gopalapuram family to impose regulations to suit your defunct propaganda.”