Seeman recently praised former Brahmin Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa about how she elevated an oppressed member of her party to great heights by promoting him as Speaker of the TN Assembly. He further continued his praise of Brahmins as always – by embracing the greats of the past such as Mahakavi Subramanya Bharathi, Tamil Thatha UVe Swaminatha Iyer, and so on. He repeated it once again at an event in Erode.
Speaking at an event campaigning for his candidate in Erode, Seeman said, “Socrates once said those who lose in a debate take up defamation as a tool to attack. So, they started cutting their Shikha (kudumi), cutting their janeu (sacred thread/poonool). You are cutting their janeu then for what hair are you in an alliance with Rahul Gandhi who said he is Kaul Brahmin? Cut that janeu also. Let us see you do that. Even SVe Sekhar is wearing it. You are joining hands with him, even his own community members in his street will not give you a vote if he asks. I will also field a candidate in Mylapore. For no reason, you keep harping anti-Brahminism. All those who have gathered here, tell me one thing. Have you heard of an honour killing happening in any Brahmin household? All the oppressed and suppressed people have married into Brahmin families. Ambedkar, Ram Vilas Paswan, Gnanasekaran who directed Bharathi and Periyar films. If you are doing well in life, they will not refuse to accept the marriage. It is only our people – you will not believe it, a Maravar Agamudayar girl was refused wealth because the girl got married to the Agamudayar family. Where is the caste construction, caste thinking, and caste stratification? It is within all of us. Instead of eradicating this, they are propping up the Brahmin as a devil and the 30% Dravidianists have been destroying the country for the past 60 years – how did you endure this?”
After slamming the Dravidian model, he came back to the topic of Brahmins once again. He said, “The Dravidian model is a fraud story. They built their foundation with Brahmin opposition and strengthened it. Why are they opposing Brahmins? Yeah, they will call me a Brahmin palanquin carrier, a labourer who works for them, it is not me. Periyar called Tholkkapiyar who lived 5000 years ago as a Brahmin labourer! Okay, we are labourers, you all are partners. How does Brahmin opposition come into the picture? To stay in power, one thing must be learned properly. What is the most brutal violence in the world? The answer is – knowingly attacking someone who won’t and cannot retaliate. This is how they do it. Out of the 100% population, 3% is constituted by Brahmins, if they attack them, the 30% Dravidianists will support them. So, they constructed the Brahmin demon. I told then as well, I am repeating it now, the one who is next to you is the biggest thief. Dravidian progressiveness is actually thief/looter progressiveness. Why do we have to talk about this? Let me ask you one thing – Tamil Thatha UVe Swaminatha Iyer, our grandfather Maraimalai Adigal’s guru, Sooryanarayana Sastri who changed his name to Parithimar Kalaignar because of his love for the Tamil language, the revolutionary leader, the great leader our grandfather Mahakavi Subramanya Bharathi – he infused new blood into the Tamil language when it was dying. Show me one Dravidianist who has done something similar to what these giants have contributed to Tamil. There is no one. In Erode, what Lakshmana Iyer has done, this great poet, our grandfather Bharathi, who is praised by everyone as a great sinner, is a great sinner who shed new blood in the world of Tamil literature. When he was falling, he said that these three people had done the trouble to this Tamil language as a Dravidian. Someone said, “Hey, in this town, in your town, in Erode, in this place, Lakshmanan Iyer did what Periyar didn’t do. He was a big rich man. When the country was under British rule, when the land was grabbed, Lakshmanan Iyer fought for its liberation. He gave many acres of land to the downtrodden and backward people to build houses on his own land. The great man who gave them a place to live was the head of this city council. He banned the human waste scavenging. What will this man say about him? Parpaan.”
He further narrated Bharathi’s poem, “There are no castes. It is a sin to say that there are no castes, he will see, this one will see caste, he will not see caste, but he will see, then what do we have to say, Bharathi is a parpaan. Because he saw everyone in the human race as equals. That is why he is a Parpaan. Ask this question, there are scholars greater than me, Periyar will ask anyone what caste they are. Proof for this Duraimurugan and Vasuki.”
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