evidence: The DMK’s election manifesto has upset the Hindu community in Tamil Nadu. The Dravidian party’s announcement in its manifesto that it would establish a land Bank for protecting vacant land belonging to temples and its proposal to consider the demand of the people who are offering to purchase temple land is seen by Hindus across the State as an attempt by the DMK to grab temple land. The Dravidian parties, especially the DMK has been in the forefront in helping party leaders and associates in grabbing land belonging to the temples. The DMK’s announcement that it would consider the request by the people who are offering to purchase temple land is nothing but an attempt to legalise land grabbing," TR Ramesh, Temple Worshippers Society, told The Pioneer. Ramesh has been waging legal wars against land grabbing by successive Dravidian Governments over the last one decade. [...] She pointed out the hypocrisy and double standard of the DMK while dealing with issues concerning the Wakf Board. "The DMK manifesto declares that the properties of the Wakf Board would be recovered from encroachers and protected. Why the DMK is not doing the same with the temple lands which have been encroached upon by the politicians and their associates," asked Anandan.