As the controversy over Rajinikanth's comments on Periyar heats up, DMK leader M.K. Stalin said the veteran actor must think when speaking about people like Periyar. “My friend Rajinikanth is not a politician, he is an actor. I request to him that when speaking about people like 'Periyar', he should think and then speak,” Stalin told ANI.
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Days after a Dravidian outfit demanded an apology from him for his comments on a rally taken out by social reformer Periyar decades ago, Superstar Rajinikanth on Tuesday asserted that he will neither express regret nor tender an apology and maintained that his remark was factual.
Showing clippings from magazines and newspapers, the top actor said the idols of Lord Ram and Sita were taken out without dress and the deities also featured a garland of sandals in a rally led by late Periyar E V Ramasamy in 1971. "A controversy has emerged that I said something that did not happen. But I did not say anything that did not occur. I only said what I heard and things that appeared in magazines. Sorry, I will not express regret or apologise," he told reporters outside his Poes Garden residence.
-with PTI inputs
