New Delhi: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam MP A.Raja issued a public apology the day after Tamil Nadu chief minister Edappadi Palanisami spoke emotionally throughout in his election marketing campaign accusing the previous of defaming his deceased mom. A video of A.Raja’s marketing campaign on the Chepauk meeting constituency went viral on Saturday for making a bigoted comment about Tamil Nadu chief minister’s start. Raja’s apology got here a day after the police booked him beneath related IPCs. In his two-page apology, Raja denied the accusation mentioning he was merely evaluating the management qualities of each the DMK chief Stalin and the chief minister utilizing a metaphor.
Raja additional mentioned, ‘However, I came across few reports that the chief minister was deeply tormented over my remarks. Hence I deeply regret from the bottom of my heart for the misunderstanding’
Election for the 234 meeting constituencies of Tamil Nadu is scheduled for Apr 6. The campaigns on the other-hand have gotten a heap of sexist feedback with events like Naam Tamilar Katchi’s irrational feedback on sanitary napkins and a DMK spokesperson’s crude feedback towards ladies. However, DMK chief M.Okay.Stalin launched a public assertion advising social gathering males to take care of dignity whereas campaigning.
Sexism just isn’t new to Tamil Nadu politics. The land recognized for its gender-biased illustration has an unlucky aspect of patriarchal politics. Not so way back the ruling AIADMK expelled one in every of its youth wing secretaries after the CBI arrested him for the ‘Pollachi Sexual Assault’ case. Though the social gathering launched an official assertion concerning the expulsion there wasn’t an apology from the leaders for sheltering a rape accused. The irony is that AIADMK has a lot of loyal ladies voters throughout the state.
The Tamil Nadu BJP isn’t any exception with regards to such safeguarding. In 2018,when the social gathering member & actor S.Ve.Shekar made derogatory remarks about ladies within the regional media, the social gathering remained silent. In a Facebook put up he spoke concerning the scandal involving Tamil Nadu governor and Madurai Kamaraj University with an inexpensive remark. He went overboard when he publicly mentioned, ‘women journalists sleep around for work’. When it acquired a really sturdy condemnation, neither S.Ve.Shekar nor the social gathering which was then led by Dr.Tamilisai Soundararajan took efforts to make a public apology. Instead, ladies journalists who protested in entrance of his home had been arrested by the police.
DMK is broadly criticized for denying to setup any investigative committee to look into the sexual harassment accusations by 17 ladies towards the lyricist and the social gathering member Vairamuthu.
In a rustic the place these accused have by no means felt the necessity to apologize for committing crimes towards ladies, the place patriarchal politics has underrated self-criticism, it got here as a shock when one of many largest events within the state launched an advisory for his or her members to take care of decorum and a member of the social gathering launched a heartfelt apology for his feedback.
After all the facility of a heartfelt apology has the facility to heal than another punishment.
