Overview

• At a Chennai seminar, VCK deputy general secretary Vanniarasu linked episodes from the Ramayana and Mahabharata to an ideology he said enables caste-based honour killings.
• He cited the Shambuka/Sampuhan narrative to argue that such tales uphold varnashrama and Sanatana hierarchies, invoking Ambedkar’s opposition to that ideology.
• Tamil Nadu BJP spokesperson Narayanan Thirupathy urged Chief Minister M. K. Stalin to act and publicly pressed for Vanniarasu’s arrest under the Goonda Act.
• Former state BJP chief K. Annamalai condemned the remarks as a distortion, saying the cited Uttara Kanda is not in Valmiki’s or Kambar’s Ramayana.
• Coverage describes sharp political backlash and media focus in the state, with no confirmed government measures or legal proceedings reported so far.