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Celebrating In D-Style: DMK Workers Behead Goat With TN BJP Chief Annamalai Photo Amid Chants Of “Sacrificial Goat” To Celebrate His Electoral Loss

June 6, 2024
The Commune

A video of a goat being beheaded in the middle of the road has gone viral on social media platforms, leading to widespread condemnation by people from all across the country. The video shows DMK workers beheading a goat carrying a picture of Tamil Nadu Bharatiya Janata Party president Annamalai.  

The workers “symbolically” slaughtered the goat in broad daylight as a reaction to Annamalai’s recent defeat in the Parliamentary elections in the Coimbatore Lok Sabha constituency. In the background, children are heard saying, “Annamalai, goat, sacrificial goat”

Annamalai was up against DMK candidate P. Ganapathy Rajkumar, and this was his first time in an MP election. Annamalai had earlier contested in the Aravakurichi constituency in the 2021 Assembly polls.

The fight for the Coimbatore seat was a closely watched and highly anticipated contest, with many locals and people from other states rooting for the BJP president’s victory.

Netizens have taken to various platforms, expressing shock and outrage over the incident. Many have called for swift action against the perpetrators, demanding a thorough investigation and stringent punishment under relevant laws.

The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) party, from its top brass to the rank-and-file members, has been persistently mocking Annamalai referring to him as a ‘goat’. In an interview, Annamalai confided that he came from a humble background and grew up rearing goats.

It is noteworthy that before the elections, DMK Minister TRB Rajaa boastfully declared that while they had initially planned to serve biryani in Coimbatore, with Annamalai as the opposing candidate, they would instead serve a delectable goat biryani after securing a resounding victory with a massive margin.

At the time of counting on 4 June 2024, as the results started trickling in, a video of DMK party workers carrying a goat to the party headquarters in Chennai was also making the rounds. Even in this video, the goat was also seen bearing Annamalai’s photo around its neck.

 

 

Following the announcement of the results, in Coimbatore, DMK cadres served goat biryani, symbolically presenting two goats for this occasion. A photograph of this event was subsequently posted on their news channel’s social media account.

And the most derogatory one of all this mockery was the last one – the one where DMK workers garlanded a goat with Annamalai’s photograph, brutally slaughtered the animal, and poured its blood over the photograph, sending a symbolic message of ‘beheading’ the BJP leader.

Along with the DMK workers and supporters, DMK’s mouthpiece, Sun News, unleashed a vitriolic campaign on 4 June 2024, making derogatory references to the BJP alliance’s inability to win any seat in Tamil Nadu while also mocking its losses in UP.

Here are some netizen reactions questioning the barbaric nature of the DMK workers.

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