Overview

• Vairamuthu said Lord Ram “lost his mind” after separation from Sita at a Kamban Kazhagam event, invoking IPC Section 84 to highlight Kambar’s exoneration.
• Tamil Nadu BJP chief Nainar Nagendran called the comments “unacceptable” and demanded to know if Chief Minister M.K. Stalin endorsed them, while spokesperson Narayanan Thirupathy branded the poet “a fool.”
• The Vishwa Hindu Parishad has demanded Vairamuthu’s arrest and plans protests outside his residence, accusing him of offending Hindu sentiments.
• Vairamuthu’s team posted that his speech was a literary-historical interpretation of Kambar’s epic and not intended as a critique of religious belief.
• The DMK-led state government has yet to issue any official response or take action on the controversy.