T S Venkatesan
CM’s secretariat is filled with Christian officers who call the shots in the name of CM and all the decisions are being taken only to safeguard the interests of the minority community.
It seems TN Textbook and Educational Services Corporation (TNTESC) is a place to accommodate all Hindu phobic, anti-BJP and vulgar speech peddlers if the recent appointments are any indication. Also, it shows Christians are preferred a lot for these coveted posts that are the base for shaping the young mind. A senior Minister’s daughter-in-law wants a law that forbids arrests of church fathers, bishops, and Nuns without the concurrence of the Vatican Pope.
Your weekly has been regularly writing about how the nearly three-month-old MK Stalin led DMK government has been silently and subtly pushing Christians in all key decision-making posts. All the decisions are being taken only to safeguard the interests of the minority community. Earlier, AIADMK was accused of minority appeasement in its ten-year rule.
J Jayaranjan, a known Modi hater in TV debate shows and speeches, was rewarded with a plum post in the Tamil Nadu Development Policy Council (SDPC) as its vice-chairman. The de facto chairperson CM Stalin will have a vice-chairman, a full-time member and eight-part time members. Prof Rama Srinivasan has a dubious past in acquiring a professorship, and a registrar appointment has been made. Vice-chairperson of the council, which has raised eyebrows. It is a planning commission. As an Econometrist, Srinivasan has an economic background and was never a guide to any PhD student. He was said to be an active AIADMK supporter till March this year.
The case is the same for other council members, but a notable common link is the supporter of Dravidian ideologies, Hindu phobic and anti-Modi. CM’s secretariat is filled with Christian officers who call the shots in the name of CM.
Father Maria Susai shared with pride how he inserted portions portraying Christianity in School curriculum from 1 to 12th standard when he was a member earlier. He is learnt to have an anti-Naxal background. Now he is made a TN Public Service Commission member and Dindigul I. Leoni as the chairperson of the TNTESC. He is known for his sexist, anti-Hindu jibes in his debate shows and poll campaigns. He compared the waist of women with a cow.
“Now Suba Veerapandian, best known for his anti-Hindu speeches mainly targeting Brahmin, and Strong Modi hater, has been appointed as Textbook body. This anti-Hindu peddler supported the lyricist Vairamuthu who has been accused of sexual harassment by multiple women. Vairamuthu made a disparaging comment on saint poet Andal. Suba Veerapandian runs Dravida Iyakka Tamilar Peravai, b- a team of Dravidian Kazhagam and DMK spreads the principles of separatist and demagogic Dravidian ideology. Subavee, as shortly called a bania community member, incites hatred against the Tamizh Brahmins through his TV debates and speeches. ”
Sometime back, Tamil Lyrist Thamarai made scathing remarks against SubaVee and her ex living partner Thiagu, accusing them of sexual harassment. He was accused of being a partner in sexual misconduct and a vital figure of an organization that the Tamil Nadu Government banned on August 13, 2002, the Tamil National Movement (TNM) led by ex-congressman and hardcore LTTE supporter, Pazha Nedumaran. In that banned outfit, Subavee was the general secretary. The TNM was banned and labelled as an ‘unlawful group’ by the Tamil Nadu Government.
Subavee, Nedumaran, Thayappan Ahmed and Pudukottai Pavanan have been charged under section 21(2) (3) of POTA and were arrested for allegedly canvassing in favour of the banned LTTE at a meeting held in Chennai in 2002. Ailing Senior DMK Power Minister Arcot N. Veeraswamy had condemned the provocative speeches of Subavee in the past. Now he has been rewarded with an advisory committee of TNTESC. In a meeting, Subavee told a gathering of school children that the ruling BJP government is for the Brahmins, and this is a government for Brahmins.
Common and neutral people question, "Is this way a rationalist person would speak to children? Will this not bring a divide between Brahmin and non-Brahmin students in schools? What kind of advice would he give if he was appointed to the advisory council of the TNTESC? Will not he misuse his position to spread anti-Hindu, anti-Brahmin hatred? Who will be the DMK government’s next appoint? Could the man convicted of killing former Prime Minister as chairman of state human rights commission?” Journalist Kaathavarayan asks.
In another development, Senior DMK Minister I Periaswamy’s daughter-in-law and wife of MLA son I P Senthil Kumar has stoked controversy. Senthil Kumar married Mercy, an RC Christian by birth, and it is quite natural he should have converted to that religion. Following the death of Stan Swamy, she said a law should be brought in requiring the approval of the Vatican’s Pope’s approval to arrest Christian pastors and sisters around the world.
Mercy was heard saying in a video that has gone viral on social media, “Everyone is speaking out about Pastor Stan Swamy’s death. I am here to say my opinion to you. We are all bound by our family circles and we can only volunteer in our spare time. But what respect do we give to priests and sisters who dedicate their entire lives to service? A priest (Stan Swamy) passed away recently. Today, 200 people gathered in solidarity with him. Another priest and a sister will be struggling somewhere else tomorrow.”
Mercy said it was due to fathers and sisters, education and rationality came to India. ”See majority of the educational are being run by priests and sisters, who should teach politics and law. We should teach on sainthood in the colleges with Christians. Christian Pastors and sisters as heroes and heroines,” she pointed out. So she wants legislation to be enacted that would require prior approval from Vatican Pope to arrest pastors, bishops, or nuns worldwide.
The function was organized to condole the death of Stan Swamy. If the same logic is applied, to arrest whom should we get prior approval from, Kailash or Vaikundam? asks Ravishankar, a social media activist. Court-appointed ex IG Ponn Manickavel’s probe ended with I Periaswamy and pointed a needle suspicion on several presents and past Dravidian leaders. Now you will know why both DMK and AIADMK were against his investigation into the missing idol case in TN.
