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‘Even a dog can get a BA degree today’: DMK leader RS Bharathi stokes a political row, was earlier arrested under SC/ST Act over...

OpIndia Staff - 5 July, 2024

The DMK leader RS Bharathi made controversial remarks stating that even a dog can get a BA degree, in an apparent reference to access to education in Tamil Nadu.

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‘Aspiring to build a career beyond Tamil Nadu, learn conversational Hindi’: Cricketer Ravichandran Ashwin slams Dravidian anti-Hindi campaign ‘Hindi Theriyadu Poda’

OpIndia Staff - 26 June, 2024

Ace Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin recently slammed DMK’s anti-Hindi campaign slogan, ‘Hindi Theriyadu Poda’ (Translation – I Don’t Know Hindi, Get Lost!)”, and advocated for learning the Hindi language.

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Tamil Nadu: DMK leader blames BJP for Kallakurichi Hooch tragedy claiming methanol came from Puducherry, calls it a ‘conspiracy by Annamalai’

OpIndia Staff - 23 June, 2024

The DMK leader also blamed BJP’s Tamil Nadu President K. Annamail, calling the Hooch tragedy a “planned conspiracy by Annamalai”.

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NCW writes to Tamil Nadu DGP asking for a detailed report over DMK leader K Iniyavan’s derogatory remarks against Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman

OpIndia Staff - 23 June, 2024

During the DMK event, Iniyavan used casteist and misogynist slurs while targeting FM Nirmala Sitaraman.

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Tamil Nadu Hooch tragedy: Death toll rises to 56 in Kallakurichi, AMMK’s Dhinakaran says DMK responsible for these deaths

ANI - 23 June, 2024

The death toll in the Tamil Nadu Hooch tragedy has risen to 56, according to the district administration's report released on Sunday.

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Tamil Nadu hooch tragedy: Death toll reaches 47 in Kallakurichi, 3 accused persons sent to jail, political drama unfolds in assembly

ANI - 21 June, 2024

Meanwhile, the second day of the Tamil Nadu Assembly Session began in Chennai on Friday with a ruckus as AIADMK legislators sporting black clothes raised slogans inside the House over the hooch tragedy in Kallakurichi.

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Tamil Nadu: DMK leader makes derogatory remarks against PM Modi, Annamalai, and others, BJP to file a case against him

OpIndia Staff - 19 June, 2024

Notorious for giving controversial speeches, Krishnamurthy triggered a controversy after his derogatory remarks for PM Modi, Annamalai, and other BJP leaders.

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‘Impart Dravidian ideology on migrant workers, teach them self-respect’: Kattappa-fame actor Sathyaraj mocks migrant workers, had supported ‘Eradicate Sanatan’ remark

OpIndia Staff - 12 June, 2024

Actor Sathyaraj said that the migrant workers “should be taught what is self-respect” and it was imperative to impart “principles of the Dravidian model and ideology” to the them

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‘I’m here, come to me, why harm innocent animals’: Annamalai tells DMK after party workers beheaded a goat to celebrate his defeat

OpIndia Staff - 6 June, 2024

“Instead of killing an innocent goat, if DMK is so angry, come to me, I’m here only…” Annamalai said adding that the goat could have been spared.

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Symbolic murder? DMK workers paste Annamalai’s picture on a goat before beheading it, had earlier eaten mutton biryani to ‘celebrate’ his loss

OpIndia Staff - 6 June, 2024

Responding to DMK's constant mocking of him as 'goat', Annamalai had acknowledged that his family rears goats and his parents have raised him by selling goats. So he feels no shame in being compared to goats.

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