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Chaos Erupts At VCK’s Alcohol Abolition Conference In Kallakurichi, Drunkenness And Disorder At Event

October 3, 2024
The Commune

The alcohol abolition conference conducted by Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) in the Kallakurichi district of Ulundurpettai found itself in a soup. Some cadre who had come to the event had grouped themselves and consumed alcohol.

Video footage from the event showed drunken youth creating a ruckus.

As soon as the event began, people, especially men, broke the barricades from all sides and stormed towards the stage. Unable to control them, police and bouncers were seen retreating. Some of them even misbehaved with the women police officers. Stuck among the sea of cadre, the women police officers were helpless. Women police officers are seen groped and assaulted.

Some of them started climbing the 50-ft cutouts, light towers, and flagpoles at the event premises and started cheering. In a video, one can see Thirumavalavan requesting the youth to not climb onto the cutouts placed as he was giving his speech from the stage – he says, “Please do not climb onto the cutouts. If it falls, it is dangerous for many. What 4-5 people are doing will affect many. Do not stand on the chairs.”

At one point, men entered the places where women were sitting, and women were caught in the crowd congestion. It came to a point where Thirumavalavan had to request the men from the stage not to make it unsafe for the women. He said, “Brother, do not crowd where the women are sitting. Why are you climbing up? Sit down. Get down. Do not behave like you will cause harm to the conference. Please be silent. Why are you climbing into the places where women are sitting? Won’t you listen to me? Please go back. If you go to the women’s area, where will they go? You have entered the press area also. We don’t know where the press went.”

The cadre did not listen to their own party members and began fighting with them. It is alleged that some of them consumed alcohol in groups at the backside of the event premises and came to the event.

Speakers at the event were also ironically seen saying, “No one should be seen drinking alcohol in public spaces in Tamil Nadu. At street corners, in public spaces, in schools, in the evenings, after school is over, in government office buildings, no one should consume alcohol.”

Later, the cadre entered the space given to the press and displaced the things kept there. When an angered journalist tried to question this behavior, a commotion ensued. Women who were caught in the crowd unable to go out were seen holding on to the barricades and waiting. The event ends with the cadre mostly youth taking over the stage and sitting on the chairs meant for the dignitaries.

A video from the Tamil Janam channel also exposes how random people entered the event by paying money and getting ID cards. It is evident that the person was unaware of which party was conducting the event and seemed to have already consumed alcohol before entering.

The speaker mentioned that he had come from Asanoor, stating, “I am the rowdy here.” They explained that they obtained their card for fifty rupees and arrived by bus for the meeting. They referred to the person speaking in the photo, saying, “I don’t know the name of the person, but he is Ambedkar.” They expressed awareness of the conference’s purpose, confirming that it was indeed a DMK party event when it was a VCK event.

The speaker noted that it was Gandhi Jayanti and mentioned that it would cost two hundred rupees to get alcohol and that he would need to go into the village for this. Despite the heat, he remarked that he did not drink alcohol.

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