TN Fin Min makes casteist remarks against woman journalist

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.

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.

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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