.png "Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin. (File photo)")
The announcement was made by the Chief Minister M K Stalin inside the state’s assembly.
E.V. Ramasamy popularly known as Thanthai Periyar founded the Dravidian Movement.
The Chennai Police is out to nab the eight men who were reportedly raising pro-Periyar slogans before cutting off the sacred threads worn by bare-chested men returning from temples.
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While speaking to Outlook, writer-activist Meena Kandasamy talks about politics, literature, feminism, reservation, Periyarism and poses a few questions to the Indian judiciary.
The workers of DMK and other parties, who cleaned the statue, demanded the arrest of the culprits and warned that they would intensify their agitation if such incidents recurred.
BJP president Amit Shah tweeted saying BJP partymen found to be involved in vandalism will face stern action.
Political leaders, including DMK chief M K Stalin slammed the incident, the second such one in the state in recent months, after a statue of the rational leader was found daubed in saffron in Coimbatore.
There is need today to re-examine the ideas of E.V.Ramsamy (1879-1973), who came to be known as 'Periyar' (the Great Man) after he dropped his caste surname...
