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Sun News’s Vitriolic Onslaught On Result Day – Mocks BJP’s Losses With Derogatory References And Insensitive Taunts

June 5, 2024
The Commune

As the results from every constituency were being declared, Dravidianists and Dravidian media, such as Sun News (owned by Tamil Nadu’s first family), went on an overdrive deriving joy out of mocking and ridiculing BJP over their losses – both in the state and at other constituencies. Here is a compilation of the below-the-belt behaviour of Sun News in taunting PM Modi and other BJP leaders while using Brahmin-related connotations.

In a post, Sun News mocks the 3 women contestants from BJP – Smriti Irani, Madhavi Kompella, and Navneet Rana. The image is ironically captioned with the name of a recent Hindi film Laapata Ladies – for Dravidianist media, it is a matter of wonder that they understood what Laapata meant in the first place for all their “Hindi Theriyadu Poda” bravado. The caption reads, “BJP women candidates who campaigned in a controversial way failed!” The background has a picture of PM Modi looking down. 

In order to take a jibe a PM Modi for BJP’s loss (nil seats) in Tamil Nadu, Sun News resorted to using a very anti-Brahmin usage of the “naamam” which in colloquial Tamil has been translated as being cheated – used as a negative connotation to show people who wear that symbol in a poor light. This picture of Modi was shot in Srirangam, where Brahmins of the locality showered him with blessings.

In the name of publishing a “report card“, Sun News gleefully posts an image with 0/24 written on the scorecard for BJP, indicating BJP lost in the seats it contested. Notice the word “failed” also written – trying to rub it in as much as possible.

Despite the BJP getting the most number of seats to become the single largest party in the country, this creative seems to indicate as though BJP was in second place at the end of the day. This is akin to the loser Congress celebrating their loss as if it were a victory.

The handle later shared a “viral” video of some Tamil boys saying in a chorus that TN would never allow BJP (Sanghis) to rule over them. It is perplexing to understand if they are indeed naive – because BJP is all set to come back for the third time with a Sanghi Modi at the helm.

Coming to the candidates in TN, Sun News took much pleasure in mocking former Telangana Guv Tamizhisai Sounderrajan and had captioned it as, “Massive failure – Tamilisai Soundararajan, who quit the post of Governor and contested for the South Chennai Lok Sabha constituency lost badly!”

Sounderrajan gave a tough fight to the DMK candidate Tamizhachi Thangapandian but ultimately lost the battle.

This next post made by Sun News handle on social media platform X with a lot of venom in their heart. The caption reads, “Lotus submerged in water. Among the major states in the country, Tamil Nadu is the only place where the lotus does not bloom.”

This picture seems to have been deliberately used for Union Minister L Murugan. In this too, the Hindu tradition of blowing the conch has been used to mock him. L Murugan contested in the Nilgiris (reserved) constituency against DMK’s 2G fame A Raja. In TN, the conch is blown when someone dies.

Once again, the handle takes immense joy in mocking the victory of PM Modi – they have used an image of him performing pranayam to show that he has won by a lower margin compared to previous elections.

Now, Sun News behaves like a rogue when it found a video of BJP member H Raja bursting crackers to celebrate NDA’s return to power. The caption reads, “Senior BJP leader H. Raja is celebrating by bursting firecrackers and giving laddu while BJP+ has lost in all the constituencies contested in Tamil Nadu in the Lok Sabha elections!”

Maybe someone needs to remind Sun News that despite winning 40 seats in TN and Puducherry, DMK is not forming the government at the centre.

They went overboard in mocking ADMK’s O Panneerselvam’s loss in Ramanathapuram. OPS contested as a part of the NDA but under the jackfruit symbol. The post caption reads, “Unripe jackfruit – O. Panneer Selvam, who contested as an independent on behalf of the BJP alliance in Ramanathapuram Lok Sabha constituency, failed!”

One of the most surprising losses for the BJP came from Ayodhya (Faizabad) – while the BJP supporters were mourning this, Sun News made it a point to add more salt to the injury. They shared a photo of PM Modi doing a sashtang namaskar to Lord Rama in Ayodhya during the Pran Prathishta and captioned it, “BJP candidate defeated in Faizabad Lok Sabha seat which includes Ayodhya Ram temple! Samajwadi Party candidate Avdesh Prasad won”

Sun News then shared a video of TN BJP president K Annamalai making a statement during the poll campaign asking people to mark the date of counting votes when no Dravidian party will win a seat in the south of Tamil Nadu. In the same video, in the lower half, people are seen holding a goat before taking it to be butchered for “goat biryani“.

Annamalai has been mocked over and over as “aadu” (goat) by Dravidianists. In another video, following election results where Annamalai lost to DMK’s Ganapathi Rajkumar in Coimbatore, DMK workers were seen bringing a goat adorned with a photo of Annamalai around its neck to the party headquarters. In Coimbatore, they also distributed mutton biryani.

These are just some examples from one channel over the past one day where they exacted pleasure from watching BJP or its alliance members not winning any seat in the state. The sheer arrogance of the Dravidianists makes them speak such a language and exhibit such abhorrent behaviour.

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