An interview of DMK Environment Wing Secretary Karthikeya Sivasenapathy has gone viral with viewers expressing frustration over the DMK’s attitude towards terror threats and minority appeasement politics.
In the interview, DMK leader Karthikeya Sivasenapathy reflects this attitude, in his casual reactions towards the cylinder blast by a suspected Islamist, near a temple in Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore.
In the audio visual footage, the DMK minister is heard telling the interviewer that the Coimbatore cylinder blast that happened outside the Kottai Eswaran temple by a suspected Islamist, is being made into a big issue over nothing at all.
He belittled the issue that was investigated for possible links to an Islamic terror group, saying that that the suspicious cylinder blast is being talked about because people have nothing else to discuss.
He is heard repeatedly saying that the chemicals found at the residence of the now deceased Jamesa Mubin, were common ones that can be purchased by anyone in the state, in particular Ammonium Nitrate, and went on to imply that it could’ve been used for agricultural purposes.
The interviewer reminds the DMK leader that, it is of course not a question of just one chemical or two but the significant quantities of certain chemicals procured and the specific combination of such chemical compounds, that have the potential to turn deadly when brought together under certain conditions. The state police had earlier stated that they had recovered chemicals like potassium nitrate, aluminium, and sulfur, which are used to make crude bombs, at the accused’s residence.
However, Karthikeya Sivasenapathy continues to sound nonchalant and makes light of it by challenging the interviewer on whether an explosive substance like RDX was found.
He dismisses the facts of the worrisome case and repeatedly makes a silly excuse for the large quantity of specific chemicals discovered by the police, as being common agricultural essentials.
“The chemicals could’ve been bought for farming purposes”, DMK leader Karthikeya Sivasenapathy says to the interviewer.
Shockingly, the DMK MLA Karthikeya Sivasenapathy, goes on record, displaying brazen minority appeasement, as he continued to ignore facts of the case.
Aside from a significant quantity of the chemicals discovered at the residence of the accused, the police had also recovered nails and ball bearings from the spot where the explosion happened.
This kind of white washing and normalising threats to national security and people's lives is what will bury DMK in elections in the future starting 2024. This is a shocker @ksivasenapathy pic.twitter.com/g99Sxcpkc8
— Sreenivasan B R (@SreenivasanBR) October 31, 2022
The cylinder blast had occurred at a Coimbatore temple on Sunday 23 Oct 2022, a day before the Hindu festival of Diwali. The suspected terrorist Jameesa Mubin, died in the explosion. Police investigation, has since led to the arrests of five persons known to be Islamist sympathizers. The Tamil Nadu government has handed over the case to the National Investigative Agency (NIA).
Karthikeya Sivasenapathy first shot to fame during the Marina Jallikattu (traditional bull fighting tradition of TN ) protests in 2017. He was one of the people instrumental in organising the protest against the BJP-led central government, over the ban on Jallikattu in Tamil Nadu, which successfully ended in an ordinance passed by the then AIADMK government, allowing the sport.
At the time, his protest was positively received in Tamil Nadu, but critics had questioned a possible ulterior motive with Karthikeya’s open support of the DMK and the Congress party, in spite of the actions leading up to the Jallikattu protest, having been initiated and supported by members of the Congress party. It was Jairam Ramesh of Congress, that added bulls to the “No Sport” list and it was A. Raja of the DMK, who had made recommendations for animal welfare organization, PeTA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) to register as an NGO in India. It was Congress party advocates, Nalini Chidambaram and Abhishek Singhvi, who appeared in the court to support the Jallikattu ban in the first place.
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