CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu Congress Committee president KS Alagiri has urged actor Rajinikanth to read the Mahabharata again in order to understand it better.
He made the statement a day after the actor called Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah as 'Krishna and Arjuna' for removing the special status for the Jammu and Kashmir.
KS Alagiri, stated in a press release on Monday, "Actor Rajinikanth has stated that Home Minister Amit Shah has done very well as far as abrogation of Article 370, which gives special status to Kashmir, is concerned. Rajinikanth is a good person; I didn’t expect such a comment from him.”
"Rajinikanth has said that Modi and Amit Shah are like Krishna and Arjuna. How can the people who snatched away the rights of crores of people be called Krishna and Arjuna?,” the statement said.
He further highlighted in his press release that it was not just Kashmir that had enjoyed the special status but Himachal Pradesh, the North Eastern states and Coorg in Karnataka continue to do so.
The actor Rajinikanth was speaking on Sunday in an event in Chennai, which was attended by Amit Shah, when he hailed the union government's move on Jammu and Kashmir and made the comments.