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Chennai: BJP senior leader H.S. Raja has criticized.
The debate on Tamil New Year in Tamil Nadu has been going on for the last several years. In the DMK government from 2006-11, it was declared as the only Tamil New Year.
It is not a Tamil custom to celebrate the New Year in Chittarai. That is the Sanskrit custom. The DMK’s position is that the Tamil New Year is the first day to welcome the Thai daughter.