DMK has once again unleashed its rabid stage speakers to attack its political opponents with one “Kavignar Iniyavan” hurling abuses against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, and BJP Tamil Nadu State President K. Annamalai.
“Kavignar” Iniyavan who claims himself to be a “poet” has been platformed by DMK’s mouthpiece Kalaignar TV as a “pattimandram” (debate) speaker. He was recently speaking at an event organized by the DMK and attended by various DMK leaders. The event was presided by Dindigul Leoni, a controversial orator who now heads the Tamil Nadu Textbook & Educational Services Corporation.
During the DMK event, Iniyavan made abusive remarks against Finance Minister Nirmal Sitharaman with a veiled dig at her Brahmin woman identity.
He said “If we send our (DMK) ladies to the Parliament with a margin of 2.5 lakh votes, there will be one ‘Moodhevi Munda’ sitting opposite to you and will ask you questions. That one (implying Nirmala Sitharaman) will not even stand in a single election. I have just one request. Hon’ble Members of Parliament, when you go to the Parliament and if that ‘pickle-selling mami’ comes and stands in front of you, tell her this – I’ve come here after winning 2.5 lakh votes, you talk if you can get one vote from Perungudi.”
Moodhevi is the Goddess of misfortune but it has also gained the currency of a cuss word. Munda is a Tamil cuss word and disrespectful way of addressing a widowed woman. The word Mami is used as a slur and in derogatory fashion especially by Dravidian ideologues when addressing Tamil Brahmin women in Tamil Nadu.
This is not the first time that Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has been targeted by DMK and other Dravidianists for her Brahmin woman identity.
Earlier, former Justice Chandru had hurled casteist slurs at Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman calling her “Ooruga Maami“, a casteist and a sexist reference to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s Brahmin and woman identity. Recently, DMK MP Dayanidhi Maran during the Lok Sabha election campaign called Nirmala Sitharaman as “Nirmala Mami“. A Raja insulted Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, too mocked her Tamil Brahmin background by referring to her as ‘Mami.’ YouTube beautician turned DMK IT Wing functionary shared a video of a Muslim woman mocking Nirmala Sitharaman
Iniyavan then went on to attack BJP Tamil Nadu State President K. Annamalai who had targeted DMK MP Kanimozhi for nepotism.
Iniyavan said “I will say that my parents are the best. Leoni Annan will say that his parents are the best. This is what a person born to a good mother and father will say with intelligence. Can I say ‘Had it been for his father, I would’ve passed’? Whom are you insulting? If someone asks you (Annamalai) why you lost, and you say ‘My father’s name is not Karunanidhi’, aren’t you insulting your Ngomma? Are you a leader?”
Ngomma is a derogatory way of addressing Amma (mother). Iniyavan also called Annamalai a “Tharudhalai” which loosely translates to a wastrel.
“If this wastrel is like this, there’s one above him (Narendra Modi). He’s saying that he was not born through his mother and father. I jumped from the sky. Ayoyo!”, Iniyavan went on to say.
At this point, Dindigul Leoni interjects and can be heard saying “I was not born naturally like other humans. I was sent by God” referring PM Modi’s comments about how he felt blessed by divinity to fulfil his mission of serving people to which Iniyavan makes crass sexual innuendo about PM Modi’s father saying “What was your father doing?”
There have been many instances where DMK leaders especially stage-speakers like Sivaji Krishnamurthy who have indulged in making personal and abusive remarks against PM Modi, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, BJP leader Annamalai, Governor RN Ravi to name a few.
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