Suresh Sambandam, the CEO of Kissflow and who is popularly known for being the ruling DMK’s unofficial brand ambassador, has once again been caught spreading unconfirmed information and lies. Taking to his Twitter page, he had shared information about castes in various states of India. He had shared a map of India along with caste names that are taken as surnames in different states. In the same map, he marked Tamil Nadu as the state without surnames and titled it as ‘Periyar’s Bhoomi’ (the land of ‘Periyar’).
Land of #Periyar stands out from the rest pic.twitter.com/0DKDggGrTZ
— Suresh Sambandam (@sureshsambandam) February 13, 2022
Suresh, who is known for speaking from East to West about Social Justice, got into a tangle, after believing and sharing this fake news. Below his post, many netizens replied that there was no such customs in their respective states.
What is to be noted is that Tamil Nadu is one of the leading states in India for intra-caste marriages. When that is the case, how can the castes be eliminated? The Dravidian parties who show the rabid demagogue E.V. Ramasamy Naicker (hailed as Periyar by his followers), as the man who alleged abolished caste in Tamil Nadu, have not shown which caste practice he has abolished, till date.
Periyar himself had once registered his name in a National Daily, as E V Ramasamy Naicker, withe Naicker being the caste name. When this is the case, it is still a mystery why people like Suresh Sambandam bring in Periyar’s name for social justice and caste discrimination.
There have also been instances where DMK leaders themselves have their caste names.
DMK MP T.R. Baalu bears the initial ‘R’ which stands for ‘Rajuthevar’, one of the dominant castes in Tamil Nadu.
This is not the first time Suresh Sambandam has been caught peddling lies. Earlier, he had fudged data about the number of doctors available in different states of India to its population.
Prior to that he exposed his shallow knowledge on history, politics and economy in an interview with ‘Neeya Naana’ Gopinath to Behindwoods YouTube channel.
During the farmers protest that happened in the outskirts of Delhi, he had peddled false news about the farmer empowerment laws where he said that Minimum Support Price would be scrapped and that key farm items would be removed from the ‘Essential Commodities’ which was busted by The Commune.
(With inputs from Kathir News)
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