K Annamalai, Tamil Nadu BJP state president, flogged himself six times. This comes after a promise he made yesterday at a press conference. This self-flogging was the first of his “atonement” for the inefficiency of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam in ruling the state.
The BJP president on Thursday said he would not wear footwear from Friday until the DMK govt is unseated. Annamalai spoke to the media in Coimbatore In front of his house. During this Annamalai said, “I am going to whip myself six times in front of my house at 10 am tomorrow. I will not wear footwear until the DMK govt is ousted from power.”
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The promise symbols protest against the way police handled the Anna University rape case. Annamalai slammed the police authorities for divulging the name. The phone number and other personal details of the survivor in the case were also revealed.
He further questioned, “How did the FIR enter the public domain? You have revealed the survivor’s identity by leaking the FIR. The FIR also shows the survivor in a poor light,” he said, hitting out at law minister S Regupathy. “Where did the Nirbhaya fund go? Why was there no CCTV camera on Anna University campus,”.
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Following this, Annamalai wrote to the chairperson of the National Commission for Women Vijaya K Rahatkar. In the letter, he stated that TN police made the survivor’s identity public along with her address through the FIR copy. He said this was a move by the DMK government to malign the survivor’s character.
On behalf of @BJP4TamilNadu, we have today written a letter to @NCWIndia seeking strenuous action against the persons involved in this detestable act of revealing the victim’s identity to the general public, the State Police Department for their willful negligence, and also… pic.twitter.com/HTxZuBcJgt
— K.Annamalai (@annamalai_k) December 26, 2024
On Friday morning, Annamalai, wearing only a green ‘mundu’, flogged himself six times. He flogged himself with a long, white whip. This happened in front of media persons and other Bharatiya Janata Party members.
The BJP state president then addressed the media present there. He said that anyone who understood Tamil culture and practices would know “the ways of the land”.
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Annamalai further said, “Flogging ourselves, punishing ourselves, putting ourselves through very tough rituals, etc. are all part of this culture. It is not against any person or not against anything. It is against the continuous injustice that’s happening in the state. What has happened in Anna University is only a tipping point,”.
The BJP President also talked about his ancestral rituals he said, “A lot of my forefathers walked this path and I have also chosen it. This is a process of surrendering to the higher power, surrendering to God,”
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“In the second week of Feb, I am going to visit all six Arupadai Veedu (Lord Muruga’s abodes) and complain to Murugan about the situation in TN,” he said.
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