Tamil Nadu Finance Minister PTR Palanivel Thiagarajan has once again spewed venom on social media, this time on a woman journalist.
Chandra R Srikanth, an Editor with the financial and business news website Moneycontrol, had put out a tweet on Wednesday (May 25) saying that a top leader’s son is involved in a mega land grab.
“Met a friend from Chennai recently. Apparently some mega land grab going on by one top leader’s son in law. “You cannot sell any land parcel above 5 crore in Chennai if you dont sell it to this guy” The more things change….”, the woman journalist wrote.
Met a friend from Chennai recently. Apparently some mega land grab going on by one top leader's son in law. "You cannot sell any land parcel above 5 crore in Chennai if you dont sell it to this guy"
The more things change….— Chandra R. Srikanth (@chandrarsrikant) May 25, 2022
Responding to this tweet, Tamil Nadu Finance Minister PTR Palanivel Thiagarajan abused the woman journalist by invoking her caste identity.
He called her tweet as ‘illogical rumor-mongering’ and insinuated that her tweet was ‘usual wage-work for covert agents, especially of certain (thread) ilk’.
Many have pointed out that the ‘thread ilk’ in Palanivel Thiagarajan’s tweet is a vile reference to Brahmins.
The DMK Finance Minister is now being called out by people on social media for the casteist remark.
Wait, the Finance Minister of Tamil Nadu is actually caste baiting. Wooooow. We really are screwed. https://t.co/merwAJJjf4
— Goddammit man. (@A90170319) May 27, 2022
Endless degrees, foreign education, working in esteemed organisations, being born in a revered political family and the post occupied nothing stops you frm being a bigot. Arrogance will ultimately pave way to great downfall. I wish the same for you. https://t.co/MDzBZz8s1A
— Naveen 🇮🇳 (@narayan0704) May 27, 2022
This guy is 💯 % unadulterated ‘filth’ https://t.co/Y9CIrQtpzA
— Dr Giridhara Upadhyaya 🇮🇳 (@rashtradevobava) May 27, 2022
Atrocious behavior… Can't counter with facts.. idiotic minister.. I don't know why such a hatred especially to that Brahmin community… still in this decade tooo… https://t.co/8XcHgldWXp
— Minnal_Magy (@MagyMagesh1) May 27, 2022
This guy is a minister & gets a free pass as he is secular, progressive, liberal and US educated! No media dare to contradict or call out! https://t.co/LHCV23ceFo
— Viveka Shenoy 🇮🇳 (@vivekashenoy) May 27, 2022
This is not the first time that Palanivel Thiagarajan who often boasts of coming from an illustrious family, having studied and worked abroad, has resorted to abusing woman journalists. He had earlier attacked Malini Parthasarathy, The Hindu Publishing Group’s Chairperson saying that she needed ‘counselling’. This attack came after Malini Parthasarathy shared an article of The Hindu which carried Isha Foundation’s response to Palanivel Thiagarajan’s abuses on Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev.
In another instance, Palanivel Thiagarajan when he was the DMK IT Wing head indulged in denigrating a Ramnath Goenka Award Winning journalist Sandhya Ravishankar who had exposed some of the false rhetoric of the Pollachi Sexual Abuse case.
Palanivel Thiagarajan had also unleashed abuses and made personal attacks on Coimbatore South MLA Vanathi Srinivasan who had called out the former for insulting Goa during the 43rd GST Council meeting.
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