Chennai: Makkal Needhi Maiam chief Kamal Haasan has slammed IIT Madras for the controversial recital of a Sanskrit religious song at a government function. The function attended by Center Ministers Nitin Gadkari and Pon Radhakrishnan on Monday.
“In Tamil Nadu should sing the Tamil anthem or invocation,” he said, adding “It (religious song being recited) is condemnable”.
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At government functions in the state, only “Tamil Thaai Vazhthu” (invocation song of mother Tamil), penned by Manomaniam Sundaram Pillai, is played at the beginning and the national anthem towards the end of the events.