On a day when Chief Minister MK Stalin is making a visit to the Kongu region, the hashtag #GoBackStalin has been trending at the national level to protest against the CM’s visit to the region.
Both people and public representatives of the region have alleged that the DMK is discriminating Kongu people in vaccination as they rejected the DMK in the recently concluded Assembly polls.
Netizens and leaders allege that political preferences of people seem to be having a role in the vaccine distribution by the DMK government.
In light of this, the hashtag #GoBackStalin has been trending on Twitter with many taking potshots at MK Stalin saying that this is the first time that a sitting Chief Minister is facing resistance from his own people for visiting a region in his own state.
The hashtag #GoBackStalin has been trending at number one spot in all India trends with more than 1 lakh tweets.
However, there has been a deafening silence from media organizations masquerading as ‘neutral’ media which had jumped in to put a news item whenever #GoBackModi trended.
The News Minute which has covered more than 10 articles having reference to #GoBackModi with atleast 4 exclusive articles on the hashtag trending on Twitter has not even put one article about #GoBackStalin which had also trended earlier in October 2020 when MK Stalin allegedly insulted Pasumpon Muthuramalinga Thevar by dusting off the Vibudhi prasad at the Thevar Temple.
The News Minute had even gone on to cover an article saying that “Go Back Modi” hashtags were not promoted by Pakistan despite that not being the case. It has been proved that ‘Go Back Modi’ hashtags were being promoted by bots in Pakistan.
Puthiya Thalaimurai another supposedly ‘neutral’ media organization which had even held debates over ‘Go Back Modi’ when Prime Minister Modi had visited Madurai.
Same is the case with other Tamil media channels like DMK family owned Sun News, News 7 Tamil, Behindwoods, Galatta Media, etc.
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