After DMK leader Udhayanidhi Stalin once again called for the eradication of Sanatan Dharma, Congress leader JMH Aassan Maulana supported him. "Edappadi [of the AIADMK] is out; that means PM Narendra Modi is out, and that means Sanatan Dharma in Tamil Nadu is already out," he said. BJP's Shehzad Poonawalla said that this Hindu hatred is not a coincidence.