Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly Deputy Speaker and TVK district secretary, MLA Ravi Shankar, is the person in question. It is said that the day before yesterday, a man named Karthikumar (48) from Thuraiyur went to meet constituency MLA Ravi Shankar over a drinking water issue, and that Karthikumar was then assaulted by Ravi Shankar and his supporters.
Following this, another video of the assaulted Karthikumar speaking was released yesterday morning. The Deputy Speaker was also present in that video.

Karthikumar, speaking in it, had said, “The Deputy Speaker did not attack me. The video has been edited and released.” Yesterday afternoon, another video of Karthikumar was released. In it, he said, “It is true that Deputy Speaker Ravishankar attacked me. If I did not say that, they threatened to kill me and my family. That is why I spoke like that in the video.” In addition, yesterday evening he was admitted for treatment at the Trichy Government Hospital.
Regarding this matter, the chief functionary of the We The Leader organization, Annamalai, wrote on his X page, “The incident in which an ordinary man who came to submit a petition was attacked, and the reports that, following the video he released while admitted to the hospital, he was forced to give a statement saying that no attack had taken place on him, are deeply shocking.
The allegations that Thuraiyur MLA Mr. Ravi Shankar, who holds the post of Deputy Speaker, and the police inspector, who is supposed to uphold the law, were involved in such acts are strongly condemnable.
The incident in which an ordinary person who came to submit a petition was attacked, and the reports that, following the video he released while hospitalized, he was pressured into giving a statement that no attack had taken place against him, are deeply shocking.
— K.Annamalai (@annamalai_k) November 9, 2026
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Instead of delivering justice to someone who is said to have been attacked, what kind of law and order is it to make him say that no attack took place? Power is not a tool for suppressing the voice of the people. The police are not an institution that acts according to the wishes of those in power.
The TVK government must ensure that justice is delivered to the affected Mr. Karthik Kumar. An impartial investigation should be conducted into those involved in this incident, and whoever is at fault should be dealt with appropriately under the law," he said.
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