Udhayanidhi Stalin - Leader of the Opposition in Tamil Nadu, former Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu,
Nainar Nagendran - BJP state president of Tamil Nadu,
C.V. Shanmugam - former Law Minister of Tamil Nadu, former Member of Parliament.
Each of the names and positions mentioned here is not something that can be easily brushed aside.
The movements they belong to were not born yesterday or today. Nor are they people who entered politics recently. Although Udhayanidhi's political career is only about 8 years old, his family's political legacy is more than 75 years old.
The reason all these lists are being piled up here is not to tell the public about you... but to remind you of yourselves.
How can you so easily move on after speaking obscenely about a woman?
There are already countless problems piled up in the public sphere, waiting to be cleared away. Every day, more and more new garbage is added to that heap.
Instead of this, it is not right to intrude into someone’s personal life.
Thinking you had smeared mud on someone’s personal life, you ended up smearing mud on yourself, Udhayanidhi.
It seems that women are still treated as mere pawns everywhere, from the home to the political stage. That is why it becomes so easy to speak obscenely about women.
'This is Dravidian soil', 'This is Periyar's soil' - this is the default line that is shouted from every DMK stage.
Is this what Periyar taught you? Is this what your Dravidian model means?
For nearly 25 years, Jayalalithaa was the face of the AIADMK and its general secretary. Jayalalithaa served as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu six times.
C.V. Shanmugam is someone who came from that party.
When Jayalalithaa was alive, could C.V. Shanmugam have spoken such words? If he had, could he have been a minister and a Member of Parliament?
Is an actress someone who can be easily criticized? Can anything be said about her?
Take Nainar Nagendran, for example; he too has spoken by criticizing another person’s personal life. There is such a thing as personal life here.
It seems you all forget from time to time that you are politicians. In matters concerning Tamil Nadu’s welfare, Tamil Nadu’s problems, and politics, you can criticize a fellow politician as much as you want.
When it comes to their personal lives, if something is wrong, let their family and friends correct it... and criticize them. So, it is best for politicians to focus only on doing politics.
I think everyone now understands why, even in this age when women have gone to space, there is still talk of women’s freedom and women’s safety.
Even if she goes to space, the work of verbally abusing her in obscene ways, physically and emotionally, and pushing her back into the kitchen is still, knowingly or unknowingly, continuing in this society.
Since the TVK government came to power, sexual crimes have increased... women are not safe, Udhayanidhi Stalin recently said in a statement... The DMK has been talking about this in many places.
Sexual crimes against women are not the only threat to women’s safety. Conversations like these are also a threat to women’s safety.
Whenever a sexual crime occurs in Tamil Nadu, condemnation statements invariably come out from Udhayanidhi Stalin, Nainar Nagendran, and the AIADMK.
Your disgusting remarks about women are no less vile than those sexual offenders.
The saying, 'As is the leader, so are the people,' may or may not apply to other matters, but it fits this one perfectly.
There are plenty of fools on social media saying, 'Udhayanidhi did not speak like that... they cut, copied, and pasted and distorted that speech.'
You have the proper evidence for that.
This is the modern age. Why shouldn’t people take the stance that if the leader does something wrong, we as followers will question it openly?
Yes... your leader has made a mistake. Admit it. Argue with him with due respect. By backing him, do not make yourself complicit in that mistake.
A political leader is not someone who must ensure that his party comes to power. He must not sit in office. He must not resort to crude criticism of those who oppose him.
The very first quality of a political leader is that he must act responsibly. If movements that have celebrated silver and golden jubilees have still not learned this basic lesson, then when will they learn it?