Last Updated: March 05, 2023, 13:00 IST
Okay Annamalai has been booked below sections 153, 153A(1)(a), 505(1)(b) and 505(1)(c) of Indian Penal Code (File pic: Twitter/@annamalai_k)
The motion got here after a number of movies had been circulated on social media lately claiming that migrant staff from the north are being attacked within the southern state
Chennai police have booked Tamil Nadu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Okay Annamalai for inciting violence and selling enmity between two teams after rumours of assaults on migrant staff within the state.
The BJP chief was booked below sections 153, 153A(1)(a), 505(1)(b) and 505(1)(c) of the Indian Penal Code, after he held the ruling DMK and its allies liable for the scenario.
Cases had been additionally registered towards an FIR towards a Twitter person Mohammed Tanvir, whose profile described him as a journalist, Bihar BJP spokesperson Prashant Patel Umrao, editor of Dainik Bhaskar and two social media influencers Shubham Shukla and Yuvraj Singh Rajput, below numerous sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for spreading disinformation and claiming that migrant staff have been fatally attacked.
The motion got here after a number of movies had been circulated on social media lately claiming that migrant staff from the north are being attacked within the southern state.
The movies led to panic amongst migrant staff in districts like Tiruppur, Coimbatore, Thoothukudi, and Chennai, the place issues had been raised with district administrations.
Following this, the state administration has began a concerted effort to succeed in out to migrant staff to counter widespread rumours of assaults on them. The Tamil Nadu DGP additionally issued a press release denying the studies of violence and slammed the BJP for elevating a stink over unverified claims.
Later, Tamil Nadu labour Minister C V Ganeshan additionally issued a press release saying the migrant staff in Tamil Nadu live safely with none menace.
The challenge was escalated additional after the Bihar BJP spokesperson Prasanth Umrao tweeted saying that 12 Biharis had been murdered for talking in Hindi.
Assuring that migrant staff are secure in Tamil Nadu, CM M Okay Stalin, additionally issued a press release that no hurt would befall the migrant, whom he referred to as “brothers who had helped in the development of Tamil Nadu”.
Stalin additionally “spoken to Nitish Kumar… and assured him that all the workers in the state are our own workers. They help us in the development of our state and no harm will happen to them.”
Tamil Nadu police additionally launched helpline numbers 0421-2203312, 94981 01300, and 9498101320 for the migrant staff to get in contact with the district administration for any help. Further, management rooms manned by Hindi-speaking police personnel have been arrange in a number of districts to render help to migrants.
News 18 additionally spoke with some migrant staff in Tiruppur to know the bottom relations.
“I feel very safe in Tiruppur. Such incidents have not happened in Tiruppur and neither will it happen…I have seen the videos and it is clear that these incidents did not happen in Tiruppur. Whatever is shown in the video, there are no such places in Tiruppur. These are all lies meant to scare people. I appeal to everyone, not to get scared by this. Some people are going back to their homes after getting scared. But please don’t do that,” Sanjai, a migrant worker in Tiruppur said.
Speaking about the issue, Raja Shanmugam, who is the former Garment Exporters Association said “Tiruppur treats everyone equally and there is no disparity shown to anyone in the district”.
He also assured “that all the migrant workers will be safe in the city and the it is the edited videos being spread by the miscreants and importance should not be given to them. District administration taking all efforts to ensure the safety of the workers in the district.”
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