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DMK Govt’s ‘Sollin Selvar’ Awardee Surya Xavier Spews Venom Against BJP Leader H. Raja Targeting His Brahmin Identity

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The Commune
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In a despicable display of hateful venom that exposes the rotten underbelly of Dravidian politics, Surya Xavier—honored with the DMK government’s “Sollin Selvar” award for ‘Tamil oratory’ in 2021—has once again unleashed a torrent of hate against the Brahmin community. This time, his target is BJP leader H. Raja, whom he viciously mocked while the veteran politician is said to be admitted in hospital for illness.

Xavier’s social media post, dripping with sarcasm and bigotry, not only questions Raja’s Tamil roots but peddles fabricated narratives about his ancestors’ migration and ‘beggary’, all while cloaking his bile in faux concern for Raja’s health.

Xavier’s rant begins by alleging that Raja’s forebears fled Bihar in desperation, seeking sustenance from Tamil Nadu’s temple offerings:

He escalates the slur, claiming they begged for land grants by “showing their buttocks to kings” (“குண்டி காட்டி மானியம்”) in Melattur near Thanjavur, and mocks Raja’s devotion to Ayyanar as his kuladeivam, insisting no such deity fits a “Harihara Sharma” (a clear jab at Brahmin nomenclature).

Xavier makes baseless accusations against H. Raja of harboring a deep-seated wish for the destruction of Tamil families, ending with a sarcastic prayer for Raja’s recovery.

Surya Xavier’s post is a calculated assault on Raja’s Brahmin identity.

Accompanied by an image of Raja, the post reeks of the kind of divisive rhetoric that has long plagued Tamil Nadu’s political discourse, courtesy of the DMK ecosystem.

Surya Xavier is a serial offender who unleashes hateful abuses against Brahmins.

Just a year ago, in January 2025, he ridiculed IIT Madras Director Prof. V. Kamakoti’s scientifically backed comments on the medicinal properties of cow urine (gaumutra) by posting: “Iyer Iyengar Technology (IIT) – We don’t even need a pipe, we will just suck it by mouth.” The crude imagery, aimed at “Iyer” and “Iyengar” Brahmins, was a direct attack on their cultural practices, ignoring peer-reviewed studies from journals like Nature and US patents that validate such traditional knowledge.

Xavier infamously labeled Brahmins as “dogs” in a tirade against former AIADMK Minister Ma Foi Pandiarajan: “They had conspired to make Tamil Nadu as a hunting ground for Brahmin dogs. Ma Foi Pandiarajan is a dog who survives by licking.” He even branded Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi as “Aryan” Ravi, fabricating tales of his ancestors migrating from Afghanistan via the Khyber Pass to “control” the region. Such slurs aren’t isolated outbursts; they form a pattern of unbridled hate speech of the Dravidian Model.

What makes this particularly galling is the DMK government’s unabashed patronage of this hate-monger. Chief Minister MK Stalin personally released Xavier’s book, Thirupparankundram – A Comprehensive Historical Study, on January 6, 2026, at the Chennai Book Fair. The 175-page tome, churned out in a mere 25 days of “research,” purports to cover the hill’s geological history, worship traditions, and “religious harmony”—including dargahs and secularism—amid ongoing controversies over the site’s Karthigai Deepam festival. The DMK has defied court orders on the matter and is appealing to the Supreme Court, making Xavier’s book a convenient tool in their arsenal to reinterpret and secularize Hindu sacred sites. Priced at a subsidized ₹200, it’s being peddled as scholarly work, but critics see it as part of a coordinated Dravidianist effort to erode Sanatana traditions under the guise of “harmony.”

Even as they loudly claimed that “Kovattakudi Thenayiram Ayyanaar is our family deity,” those who knew the history of Tamil Nadu laughed through their asses and said that there was no such clan deity for the name Harihara Sharma.

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