Tamil politics
From Hindu to Hindutva: Is the AIADMK turning saffron?
The party’s reaction to Kamal Haasan’s remarks calling Nathuram Godse India’s first extremist has mimicked the language of the Sangh Parivar.
by Sruthisagar Yamunan
When former All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader J Jayalalithaa was alive, one of the assumptions among political commentators was that her “soft Hindutva” politics kept the Bharatiya Janata Party and its Sangh affiliates from expanding their base in Tamil Nadu.
Since her death in December 2016, the AIADMK – which is ruling Tamil Nadu– has slowly but surely gravitated towards the BJP. [ . . . ]
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