“PTR gets provoked easily, politicians must exercise restraint”: DMK MP on Fin Min PTR’s abusive rants

Rajya Sabha DMK MP T.K.S. Elangovan has publicly expressed concerns over Tamil Nadu Finance Minister PTR Palanivel Thiagarajan’s public rants on social media saying that politicians must exercise restraint and not go ‘free with words’.

In an interview with journalist Sandhya Ravishankar, the DMK MP said that Palanivel Thiagarajan gets provoked easily. “For a politician, one must be little restrained. That is what I used to tell him. Opposition will try to provoke (sic) you, but don’t get provoked (sic). Because being a politician is a different ballgame as people are watching us. When we are in power, people expect action from us. Not fight with others. That is what I always advise him. But he gets easily provoked (sic). That is the problem.”, he said.

He also said that CM Stalin is watching every Minister’s actions and has been advising them on how to talk to the media and public. He said that MK Stalin had already advised Palanivel Thiagarajan to not be loose with his words and that he would re-emphasize it once again.

Palaniel Thiagarajan has been making headlines for matters unrelated to his portfolio. He has made a number of contentious statements against different public personalities on his social media and frequently indulges in cyber-bullying of even common netizens.

Recently, he had spewed abuses on journalists, opposition politicians as well as common netizens who had questioned him his non-participation in the recently concluded GST Council Meeting at Lucknow.

He kept making ‘cow urine’ barbs which is usually done by rabid Hindumisic elements to insult those who worship cows.

Responding to a woman cadre of the BJP who had asked him if he really skipped the GST Council meeting to attend baby shower function of his sister-in-law, Palanivel Thiagarajan cyber-bullied her and called her a person ‘whose brain has been spoilt by drinking cow urine’.

He had also used derogatory words like ‘schizophrenic’, ‘dolt’ and other abuses on BJP Tamil Nadu President K. Annamalai unbefitting of the position he holds.

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