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‘Stop killing Tamil’: Tamil Nadu Fin Min struggles to read budget speech in Tamil, becomes butt of memes

August 14, 2021
The Commune

The DMK government in Tamil Nadu presented its first budget on Friday (August 13), ninety nine days after coming to power. The budget, presented by Tamil Nadu Finance Minister PTR Palanivel Thiagarajan, made record by being the first paper-less budget in the history of Tamil Nadu.

However, the budget also seems to have made another record for being a budget speech with most number of faux pas.

Palanivel Thiagarajan who proudly calls himself a ‘Dravidian’ and quite often boasts about being a fourth generation dynast politician tracing his lineage to Justice Party, fumbled and struggled to read the budget speech in Tamil. Many pointed out that the DMK Minister read out the speech like a school kid with poor reading skills being asked to read out from the textbook. The Finance Minister made several errors like even on simple words and struggled to make complete sentences.

A Twitter user named Selva Kumar has compiled some of the faux pas committed by Palanivel Thiagarajan.

This has now set off a meme fest with netizens letting their creativity wild and coming out with rib-tickling memes. Many including BJP Tamil Nadu leaders mocked PTR for his inability to speak Tamil.

BJP leader H. Raja said “Ayyo Pavam Tamil!” which means “Pity Tamil!”

BJP Tamil Nadu spokesperson SG Suryah took a jibe by pointing out to a word which Palanivel Thiagarajan struggled to pronounce.

“A person who does not know Tamil presents Tamil budget in Tamil Nadu Assembly shows the work done towards Tamil by the DMK for the last 71 years!”, SG Suryah said.

Here is a look at some of the other memes:

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