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Instances When DMK Ministers Attacked People

February 6, 2023
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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin while speaking at the DMK General Committee meeting held in October 2022 said that he wakes up every morning hoping that his partymen do not create any fresh trouble for the day.

His anguish is reasonable as his Ministers have brought bad reputation for his government because of their personal conduct in public.

And this objectionable attitude of DMK Ministers have continued even after their chief warning them. In fact, if earlier the Ministers brought in disrepute through their words, they have now gone a step ahead.

Here is a list of  DMK Ministers who have hit their own partymen or common people in full public view.

KN Nehru

Tamil Nadu Minister for Municipal Administration KN Nehru was seen hitting a party worker on stage.  The incident was reported from Salem, Tamil Nadu, where DMK workers had gathered to welcome Chief Minister Stalin’s so  Udhayanidhi Stalin, the newly appointed sports minister.

However, Tamil media and certain journalists attempt to trivialise these incidents by either making absurd interpretations or failing to publish the news itself.

Earlier on January 10, a video surfaced on social media showing DMK Minister KN Nehru slapping a DMK ward councillor on the head during a government welfare programme in Trichy.

SM Nasar

DMK Minister for Milk and Dairy Development SM Nasar was caught on camera on Tuesday losing his cool and throwing a stone at a party worker, allegedly over a delay in bringing chairs.

The DMK minister was in charge of preparations at a venue in Tiruvallur where Chief Minister M K Stalin is scheduled to speak at a public meeting on Wednesday as part of the DMK’s ‘Veera Vanakkam Naal’ event.

Nasar became enraged at the worker for allegedly taking the time to get him a chair. The minister can be heard yelling at the worker in the video.

Earlier, while speaking at an event, Nasar was seen punching a man with his elbow for accidentally stepping on the mic wire. As Minister was giving a speech, a man was trying to move on the stage when he accidentally stepped on the wire, causing the microphone to fall down. Angered over this, the DMK minister lost his temper and elbowed him on the back and continued his speech.

KKSSR Ramachandran

A middle-aged woman who had approached DMK Minister KKSSR Ramachandran seeking old age pension for her mother was hit on the head by the Minister with the petition paper she had given him.

However,  the media in Tamil Nadu had tried to cover the incident in favour of the Minister stating claiming that he hit her in a ‘friendly way’. It was reported that the woman who approached him, was the Minister’s relative and that he had only nudged her and did not hit.

Palanivel Thiagarajan

Tamil Nadu Finance Minister PTR Palanivel Thiagarajan called a commoner on social media a ‘dolt’ and a person with ‘unwarranted-privilege-hardened skull’ while responding to the person on the ‘baby-shower’ controversy, where the Finance Minister allegedly skipped the GST Council meeting at Lucknow to attend a baby shower ceremony organized in his constituency

In another instance, Palanivel Thiagarajan stooped to a new low by uttering words unbefitting of a Minister. He said “Dude… I crap bigger than you.” and went on to call the netizen a ‘scum’, ‘cultist’ and ‘minion’ who had taken a jibe at the collapse of Lehmann Brothers where Palanivel Thiagarajan worked.

While Stalin has been mouthing about Dravidian Model of ‘social justice’ on every platfirmm, these instances of DMK Ministers talking and behaving in such objectionable manner shows a deeply entrenched feudal mindset.

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