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“Will Cut Off Your Sacred Thread”: Dravidian Stockist Suba Vee Spews Hate On Brahmins Over Badri Seshadri Controversy

October 22, 2022
The Commune

Badri Seshadri is the publisher of several quality books through the publishing house ‘Kizhakku Pathippagam’.

He also takes part in a number of debate shows and is well recognised for his Indic perspectives.

Between 1996 and 2005, he served as the Chief Operating Officer of CRICINFO. He graduated from Cornell University and IIT. He was roped in as an advisory committee member for Tamil Virtual Academy by the MK Stalin government.

Badri found himself mired in a controversy over a tweet about former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK founder CN Annadurai.

A Twitter user B.S. Naseem had quoted the Hindi movie ‘Brahmastra’ and said on Twitter that there are no proper words in Hindi for things related to magic and science. Vinod Kumar, a journalist who retweeted this, said, “That’s why our former Chief Minister CN Annadurai said that you can learn Hindi in three months, after that there is nothing to learn from that language.”

Badri Seshadri responded to the tweet saying, “What a ridiculous statement! If CN Annadurai had indeed made this statement, he too should be called an idiot.”

Following this tweet, Dravidian Stockists started harassing Badri online.

DMK MP Dr. Senthil Kumar, who spearheaded the onslaught on Badri, even held a Twitter poll with both the options as “Badri should be sacked”.

Later, an executive order of the Tamil Nadu government dated 19 October 2022 announcing the members part of the advisory committee for the Tamil Virtual Academy saw Badri Seshadri’s name dropped while retaining the rabid anti-Hindu abusive troll Kannabiran Ravishankar.

In the situation, another rabid Dravidian Stockist Suba Veerapandian, who runs a fringe outfit Dravida Iyakka Tamilar Peravai, while addressing a crowd from stage adorned by DMK MPs and Ministers said,” Poonool (janeu) which was hiding so far has come out and given courage to Badri to call Anna an idiot. Remember that if the arrogance continues, the poonool will be cut.”

He went on, “I was so enraged that I told DMK MP TR Balu of the incident. TR Balu sought the video and questioned how someone could have the temerity to refer to our leader Anna as an idiot while we are in power. Within 15 minutes he (TR Balu) replied that the issue was taken to MK Stalin. Today Badri is sacked from advisory board.”

Finally, he said, “We were kind enough to continue allowing them (the Brahmins) to hold public office while we were in power. Do not test our patience.”

This speech of his has gone viral on social media with many Dravidian Stockists and DMK supporters hailing Suba Veerapandian and justifiying his speech unleashing further Nazi-style hatred against Tamil Brahmins.

One anonymous handle wrote “Do you expect cajoling if you call Anna an idiot, you Steppe parasite?”

Another person wrote “If you throw mud at one of the founding fathers of this state, then you have to face the consequences”

Many on social media have called out the hate spewed by Suba Veerapandian asking if Tamil Nadu Chief Minister will take action against him given that the Supreme Court has asked state governments to take stringent action on hate speech.

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