Stalin hosts Sri Sri Ravishankar at his residence

DMK treasurer MK Stalin today hosted spiritual guru and founder of The Art of Living, Sri Sri Ravishankar at his residence here.
"Happy to have hosted Sri Sri Ravishankar today. Had a delightful conversation!" Stalin said in his official Facebook page.
The leader also uploaded a series of pictures where he and Ravishankar were seen exchanging pleasantries.
Stalin's meeting with the spiritual guru assumes significance as the DMK scion has been struggling hard to remove the 'anti-Hindu' tag associated with his Dravidian party.
Stalin's father and DMK President, M Karunanidhi had often courted controversies with his remarks aimed against Hindus and Hindu deities, besides ridiculing Hindu customs.

Karunanidhi, a self-declared atheist and a staunch member of the Dravidian movement led by rational party leader EVR Periyar, had particularly created a flutter a few years back when he had asked if Lord Rama was an "engineer" and from which engineering college he had "graduated" during the Ramasethu controversy.

Those opposed to the dredging of the bridge as part of the Sethusamudram shipping canal project had claimed that it was built by Lord Ram to cross over to Sri Lanka to which Karunanidhi had made the retort.
Stalin, whose party is facing a make or break Assembly polls after facing repeated routs since 2011 at the hands of arch rival AIADMK, has been of late insisting that his party was not against Hindus and that about 90 per cent of its members themselves were from the majority community who frequent temples.

The leader had even paid a surprise visit to Sri Sowmya Narayanaswamy temple, a vaishnavite place of worship at Thirukoshtiyur in Sivaganga last year, raising eyebrows in the state political circles.