Dr. Senthilkumar, the DMK MP from Dharmapuri engaged in a war of words with fringe group leader Thirumurugan Gandhi, who is also called as Daniel Gandhi by a certain section of people on Twitter.
Thirumurugan Gandhi had in a tweet loaded with digs at Dr. Senthilkumar, said that he is happy that the Dharmapuri MP for provided food to 220 refugees who had been suffering of hunger for 40 days that includes children. He said that it is the case where May 17 movement cadres are required to highlight the plight of the Tamil refugees from the constituency he won. He also said that he would be double-happy if he inquired about the plight of the Sri Lankan Tamils who lost their lives in the civil war.
In response to Thirumurugan Gandhi’s tweet, Dr. Senthilkumar gave a strong replying saying that he had high regard for the former and asked him to not pull him into a fight ‘voluntarily’. He questioned Thirumurugan Gandhi as to whether the latter had done anything at all apart from giving speeches on stages. He added that it is the DMK that has stands in solidarity with the Tamils of Sri Lanka and not his movement. “We try to help as and when we come to know about it”, he said.
Thirumurugan Gandhi has been mounting criticism on the DMK MP for the past few days. Earlier he had said that the DMK MP is under the mindset of a ‘Aryan Brahminist’ and went on to call him a ‘Neobrahmin’.