The DMK’s atrocities seems to have begun just within a day after coming into power with its party cadres breaking shops and attacking workers. Even before the DMK chief MK Stalin has taken oath as Chief Minister, DMK goons in Karur district ransacked a shop belonging to an AIADMK cadre causing extensive damage to the property along with a person getting injured seriously.
KNR Sivaraj is the Karur Zone Deputy Secretary of AIADMK IT Wing and runs an eatery business in the town. Just hours after the DMK’s victory was confirmed, cadres belonging to the DMK showed up at his house at around 10:30 PM. “I got a call from my wife at around 10:30 PM. She told me that some rowdies are standing and shouting at the doorstep asking about my whereabouts. I was with AIADMK cadres serving food to counting agents who had gone for duty. I asked my wife to lock all the doors and windows in the house and not open it till I come.” Sivaraj said speaking to The Commune.
Sivaraj said that they had left the place after shouting but arrived at his shop later at 12:30 PM. At that time, they had broken a TATA Ace vehicle and damaged the furnitures in the shop. Tubelights and the washbasin too were broken. They had also attacked the people who were at the shop. “They had come to the shop asking for me. At that time, one of my employees had tried to come outside. They hit him hard on his head with a wooden log. He had to get 4-5 stitches. Poor fellow he is just 21-22 years old and had come to work here from Pudukottai.”, Sivaraj said.
He said that two other people managed hide themselves from their sight and that another old man who works as a cleaner was left off considering his age.
The attack was carried out at the behest of one ‘Karur Deepak Suriyan‘, a DMK office bearer belonging to the IT Wing and close to Senthil Balaji, the winning DMK candidate from Karur.
“They had threatened to kill me by tomorrow. I am now being asked to go under hiding and save myself.”, Sivaraj said adding that he has sent off his 22 year old employee back to his native in Pudukottai.
This incident is now being shared widely in social media. Many critics of the DMK have pointed that the party has begun its atrocities even before DMK chief MK Stalin has taken oath as Chief Minister.
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