TN College Postpones Event After Minister Calls it ‘Slanderous’
College principal said the event was postponed as the institution is busy with relief work in cyclone-hit districts.
A day after BJP leader H Raja sought a ban on the seminar titled “Harassment of women as recorded in Tamil literature”, St Joseph’s College in Tamil Nadu’s Trichy on Sunday, 25 November, postponed the event, Hindustan Times reported.
Earlier, H Raja had called the event an assault on the Tamil language and Hinduism “by missionaries and urban Naxals,” the report said.
“It is a war on Tamil language and Hindu religion declared by the Christian St Joseph’s College. Let’s be prepared to face it,” the BJP leader had tweeted.
According to the report, Raja alleged the event was a conspiracy to denounce classics and an insult to Hindu epics and that it was being organised “to instigate communal tensions.”
The government would not allow the “slanderous event”, the report quoted Tamil Nadu minister K Pandiarajan as saying. “A minority community could not be allowed to denigrate the majority community and our Tamil literary works.”
College principal Xavier Arockiasamay, however, insisted that the event has been postponed because the institution is busy with relief work in the state’s cyclone-hit districts.
(with inputs from the Hindustan Times)
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