In an appalling incident, Tamil Nadu Finance Minister PTR Palanivel Thiagarajan stooped to a new low unbecoming of the position he holds by making disgusting remarks while engaging with a netizen online.
On September 7, Palanivel Thiagarajan had shared a news clipping on his Twitter timeline about how he took ‘immediate action’ to make electricity available to 50 families living in the JJ Nagar locality in Madurai who did not have electricity for more than 20 years.
மதுரை ஜே.ஜே.நகர் பகுதியில் காட்டுநாயக்கர் சமூகத்தை சேர்ந்த 50க்கும் மேற்பட்ட குடும்பங்களுக்கு 20 ஆண்டுகளுக்கும் மேலாக மின் இணைப்பு வழங்கப்படாத செய்தி @News18TamilNadu மூலமாக எனது கவனத்திற்கு கொண்டு வரப்பட்டது. உடனே நடவடிக்கை எடுத்து அம்மக்களுக்கு மின்சாரம் கிடைக்க வழிவகை செய்தேன் pic.twitter.com/Y2TLhbS8dR
— Dr P Thiaga Rajan (PTR) (@ptrmadurai) September 7, 2021
As usual, PTR Palanivel Thiagarajan resorted to blowing his own trumpet about how he had already ‘achieve enough’ and made a career in politics following his forefathers.
I came late to public life, after I'd already achieved enough & provided for my family during decades as an expat
I came back to follow my forefathers & try to help those in need. So I'm grateful to be a minister in @mkstalin's Govt🙏
We will soon sort out their Patta's also😊 https://t.co/C7jTmM56AK
— Dr P Thiaga Rajan (PTR) (@ptrmadurai) September 7, 2021
Responding to the above tweet, a netizen going by the name “NRI Tamizhan” took a jibe at the Minister patting himself on the back about his ‘achievements’ pointing to Palanivel Thiagarajan’s innings at Lehmann Brothers, which collapsed during the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis.
“Achieved enough..” // PTR
Lehman brothers… 😁 https://t.co/z9Xv2RnbdJ pic.twitter.com/pkuaY94LAO
— NRIதமிழன் 🤘 (@nrithamizhan) September 7, 2021
Stooping to a new low, the MIT-educated Finance Minister of Tamil Nadu belonging to an illustrious family of politicians said “Dude… I crap bigger than you.” and went on to call the netizen a ‘scum’, ‘cultist’ and ‘minion’.
Dude…I crap bigger than you
2 bets (just so I can debunk the micro scale of Cultist scum like you)….
1) I mentored at least 100 people who have 10x better careers than you
2) I ran 100X the scale of operation than you'll ever work for in your life
Up for it, minion? https://t.co/GCkNKfubIl
— Dr P Thiaga Rajan (PTR) (@ptrmadurai) September 7, 2021
This is not the first time the DMK Minister has made such crass remarks in public. Palaniel Thiagarajan has been making headlines for matters unrelated to the portfolio ever since he became Finance Minister.
He has made a number of contentious statements against different public personalities and later issuing statements to clarify his position.
Very recently, he had unleashed abuses and made personal attacks on Coimbatore South BJP MLA Vanathi Srinivasan who had called out the former for insulting Goa during the 43rd GSR Council meeting. Before that, he had picked fight with Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev over the latter’s demand for freeing temples from state control. This had led to spat with two other public personalities namely former Infosys director Mohandas Pai and The Hindu’s Malini Parthasarathy.
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