VCK leader Thol Thirumavalavan has come under controversy following a series of public remarks concerning an alleged assault of a motorist whose vehicle had been rammed into allegedly by Thirumavalavan’s car near the Madras High Court a few days ago.
At an event near Thirukazhukundram, Thirumavalavan recounted that a man had blocked his vehicle and that some of his party volunteers reportedly beat the individual multiple times. He also stated, “We don’t know who he is or what caste or religion he belongs to. The escort police asked him to move aside, that’s all. He stared at the police. When the others asked him to move aside since the party leader is in the vehicle, he stared again. He got beaten up because he stared and not because they knew which caste he belonged to. Are you so arrogant and self-conceited? So, they beat him up because he arrogantly stared. They gave him 4 knocks, did not even beat him up well. (crowd cheers). That man pretends to have fainted and has chest pain. What a drama. “
However, in a more recent video from an event at Chennai’s Muthamizh Mandram, Thirumavalavan claimed that news reports claim his cadre beat the motorist up mercilessly and that he was in grave danger and lying in a hospital for 15 days, which he dismissed as “drama.” He added, “In order to expose this drama, I said, they knocked him 4 times, they didn’t even beat him properly. But he is lying in the hospital. This was what I said.”
The remarks made by Thirumavalavan prompted the court to order an inquiry into whether his statements had incited the assault.
Later, at another function at the Chennai Muthamizh Mandram, Thirumavalavan changed his stance, saying he learned about the incident only after watching the TV news. He claimed, “My car did not even stop for 20 seconds, no one rolled down the windows, and no one got out of the vehicle — the crowd gathered and ran, and we drove off without involvement. I only learned that such an incident happened after watching the video released by that private television channel.”
He insisted he only became aware of the assault after seeing it on television, though footage showed the event happened at 2:34PM, and by 2:39 PM, a private channel Polimer News had uploaded the video online. He said, “That private TV channel was the first to telecast and spread the story that Thiruma’s car hit the bike. That’s the first spark for the problem, and within minutes of that, the video is uploaded to their website. The incident seems to have happened at 2:34 PM. At 2:39 PM, the television station’s digital site went live and updated it.”
Critics accused him of lying again, since the footage had surfaced almost instantly after the altercation.
Thiruma alleged, “No one has yet asked who took the video from the front. How did he know this was going to happen?”
List Of Thiruma’s Lies & U-Turns
10 years ago, at a public meeting in Pulianthope, Thirumavalavan said he had said that most of the temples were Buddhist viharas, and that the news was that Thirumavalavan was saying to demolish Shiva temples. These are the pearls that Thirumavalavan opened his mouth and spilled that day.
On Ayodhya Ram Mandir
What Thirumavalavan said back then – “There is no evidence that Rama was born at that place. It is inappropriate for us to ask for proof because if Rama was born, they could have shown it. There is no way to do that since he is an imaginary character. Even so, history is only 2000 years old. They say he was born about 50,000 years ago. If you look at it that way, all the places where Shiva temples and Perumal temples are today, were Buddhist viharas. You are building Shiva temples only after demolishing Buddhist viharas and razing them to the ground. You are building Perumal temples. Therefore, you should demolish all that and raze it to the ground and build Buddhist viharas in those places.”
What Thirumavalavan claimed he said – “You are saying that Ram was born in that place and they demolished the Ram temple and built the Babri facility. It may have been there 400 years ago. We are not arguing that it was not there. It may have been there. Should we demolish this and build a temple there? If we go and examine every Perumal temple and Shiva temple, studies show that there were Buddhist viharas in all the places where there were Shiva temples and Perumal temples. What will happen if we start demolishing Shiva temples and Perumal temples because there were Buddhist viharas in these places? I was talking in the sense that why can’t we build a Ram temple next to a mosque.”
On Manusmriti & Women
What Thiruma said then, “Manusmritis are against equality, against social justice, and especially against women. Chastity is a doctrine that was invented to oppress women. The doctrine of chastity is the very thing that creates the antithesis of adultery. Sanatanam suppressed women based on these two ideas. If she wanted to be chaste, she would have been forced to marry at the age of eight and then at the age of six.”
What Thiruma claims he said – “They are saying that all women, including Brahmin women, are considered to be Sudra caste and that all women are not trustworthy, that is, they come to their husbands and others in other troubles, that they are not trustworthy, that they can come at any time and make mistakes, and so on. This is what Manusmriti is saying, now it is degrading the entire female race. That is one interpretation.”
Temple towers have obscene statues
What Thiruma said then – “If the building has a dome, it is a mosque. If it is tall and straight, it is a church. And if it has dirty figurines, it is a temple”.
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