Actor Suriya quotes Periyar, says Godse was just a weapon
Chennai: Actor Suriya’s comments on Nathuram Godse, who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi, has sparked much discussion in State.
Addressing the media at an event promoting his next movie Kaappaan on Saturday, the actor said, “When Gandhi was assassinated, a lot of riots broke out in India. While everyone was cursing Godse, Periyaar said, ‘Bring Godse’s gun, let’s break it into pieces!’ When people around him gave him a confused look, he explained, ‘Blaming Godse for Gandhi’s death is similar to this. He is just a weapon. We need to look at the systems behind him, the ideologies that made him do what he did’.”
Suriya, who plays an officer of the National Security Guard trying to protect the Prime Minister from terrorist attacks in the KV Anand film, shared the anecdote while explaining that Kaappaan too deals with terrorism. The screenplay, he said, will ensure that you cannot pick any one individual as one responsible for all terrorism.
A video clip of Suriya’s comments have gone been widely circulated on social media, sparking heated debates on the actor’s political leanings.
Kaappaan, which also stars Mohanlal, Arya, Sayyeshaa and Boman Irani, is set for release this Friday.
CPM supports actor
Coimbatore: Actor Suriya’s comment on Nathuram Godse has garnered support from the CPM with the party’s State Secretary K Balakrishnan saying that targeting the actor for his statement is unacceptable.
“Every citizen of the country has the right to freedom of expression. As per the right, the actor has been expressing his views. He also expressed his opinion on the National Education Policy (NEP). We appreciate him for the comment. Now, quoting Periyar, he has rightly commented on Gandhi’s assassination. We hail his remark,” he said, while speaking in Coimbatore on Monday.
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Congress using hijab issue to pacify minority anger, alleges Karnataka LoP R Ashoka
Bengaluru: Leader of Opposition in the Assembly R. Ashoka has accused the Congress government of using the hijab issue to placate what he described as discontent among minority voters after the Davanagere by-election.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Ashoka alleged that the state government, instead of addressing issues such as price rise, corruption, farmers’ distress and law and order, was attempting to retain its minority vote base by reviving the hijab issue.
Referring to the 2022 dress code introduced by the BJP government, which prohibited hijab in schools and colleges, Ashoka said the Karnataka High Court had upheld the policy and emphasised the importance of discipline in educational institutions.
He questioned the Congress government’s move to revisit the issue and asked whether setting aside the court-backed policy to benefit one community could be described as secularism.
Ashoka further alleged that while the government was willing to permit hijab, it continued to prohibit saffron shawls.
He accused the government of dividing students on religious lines rather than treating schools and colleges as spaces of equality.
Drawing a comparison with Mamata Banerjee’s government in West Bengal, Ashoka claimed that excessive appeasement politics had harmed the state and warned that the Congress in Karnataka could face a similar political response.
He said voters in Karnataka would teach the Congress a lesson for what he termed “vote-bank politics” and for compromising constitutional and judicial principles.
