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Meet TRB Rajaa, The New DMK Minister Who Calls Hindu BJP Supporters As “Cow Urine Drinkers”, Abused North Indians, And Peddled Fake News

May 11, 2023
Vallavaraayan

DMK Lok Sabha MP TR Baalu’s son and Mannargudi MLA TRB Rajaa has been made the Tamil Nadu Industries Minister by MK Stalin.

TRB Rajaa who is also the secretary of DMK’s IT Wing is known for peddling hate against Hindus particularly Brahmins and also north-Indians. He has also peddled fake news several times.

Instances When TRB Rajaa Peddled Hate Against Hindus

TRB Rajaa, posted a tweet with an image of freedom fighter Veer Savarkar on a black bird hitting the Hindu god Vishnu riding a Garuda, painting both Lord Vishnu and Veer Savarkar in a bad light.

He later deleted the tweet.

On the occassion of India’s Republic Day, TRB Rajaa shared a picture of Hindu God Kamadhenu saying “which freedom fighter is this?”. Kamadhenu was part of Karnataka’s tableau for the 2013 Republic Day.

The DMK MLA had also retweeted tweets that mocked Uttarakhand’s tableau which had model of Badrinath Temple along with a sadhu.

TRB Rajaa refers to those who support BJP and oppose the DMK as “Gomiyum Gang” meaning “Cow Urine Gang”, an apparent dig at their Hindu identity. There are many tweets in which he keeps throwing the cow piss jibe at his political opponents.

This one time he had spread misinformation in order to justify the DMK government’s rice of curd packets produced by state-run Aavin. While the GST for curd was set as 5%, the price rise was increased from ₹10 to ₹12 and not ₹10.5.

The DMK IT Wing headed by TRB Rajaa through its social media handles has been posting comic posts titled ‘Dravidathaal Vaazhgirom’ narrating the party’s origins and the so-called ‘Dravidian Movement’.

These comics attack Brahmins with casteist stereotyping and jibes. In one such post that was posted on 14 February 2023, the comic story board attacks the Tamil Brahmin community by stereotyping them and peddling propaganda against them.

When TRB Rajaa Peddled Hate Against North Indians

DMK MLA TRB Rajaa had spewed venom against north Indians umpteen number of times. He had once said ‘Vadakkans’ (slur for North Indian) don’t have a sense of democracy adding that Biharis will remain at the bottom because of their voting choices.

Instances When TRB Rajaa Peddled Fake News

On 14 February 2023, some news outlets including Nagpur Today, The Hitavada and a few other news websites reported that a rake carrying 90 containers had gone missing in Nagpur.

This report, which appeared on February 14 in the online edition of ‘Hitavada,’ was debunked by the Central Railways and the Container Corporation of India. The rake was not missing, but was being physically moved to its destination, the JNPT Port.

However, this factually incorrect fake news was spread by the DMK leaders including the now-demoted Minister PTR Palanivel Thiagarajan and TRB Rajaa.

TRB spread fake news that Uma Anandan had managed to secure only 8 votes, and was in for a huge loss in the election. Proving them all wrong, she won with 5635 votes, against the combined force of DMK, Congress and 10 other parties that only got 3503 votes.

On the Coimbatore Car Bomb Blast which the National Investigation Agency (NIA) had categorically termed it as a terror incident, TRB Rajaa implied that the incident was the doing of Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi.

State Deputy Secretary of DMK IT Wing, had shared a clip from Tamil movie Kadhalan in which the antagonist discusses with another man about creating a law and order situation through bomb blasts in order to topple the government. This clip was shared by the TRB Rajaa suggesting that the Coimbatore blast was a handiwork of the Tamil Nadu Governor.

It is this vile, obnoxious, anti-Hindu and abusive troll who has been inducted by MK Stalin into his cabinet.

(Vallavaraayan is a political writer fighting Dravidian Stockists)

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