What Protection Do Your Mothers Have, Emotional Tamil Nadu CM Asks Voters After A Raja’s ‘Offensive’ Jibe

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami on Sunday turned emotional while reacting to DMK leader A Raja’s alleged disparaging remarks against him, his mother and said a mother occupied a lofty position in society and anyone who denigrated women would be punished by God. A day after the AIADMK lodged a police complaint against Raja for his comment, Palaniswami, obviously sad, denounced the offensive language used by the rival party leader.

As he tried to speak up in a campaign in north Chennai, the Chief Minister’s voice choked and he turned emotional. “If a person who occupied the position of Chief Minister could be targeted in such an objectionable manner, what would be the position of ordinary people,” he wondered.

”Think, what kind of a situation our women and mothers would face if such people capture power?” he asked. Police have filed a case against Raja for his offensive allegation, an insinuation about Palaniswami’s birth.

Palaniswami was reacting to the offensive statements about him made by DMK MP A Raja. A Raja reportedly said that Stalin’s political career is like that of “a fully matured baby born legitimately” while “EPS (Palaniswami) is like a premature baby born out of an illegitimate relationship”.

He appealed to the people to give people like Raja an ’appropriate punishment’ apparently through ballots. Whether rich or poor, a mother is accorded a very high position in the society and whoever made disparaging remarks against a mother or women would be punished for sure by the God, Palaniswami said.

AIADMK registered a police complaint on Saturday against Raja for his offensive statement about the chief minister’s birth. The Chennai police have filed a case against him.

AIADMK workers and cadres of alliance parties including PMK on Sunday held protest demonstrations in several regions of Tamil Nadu seeking the arrest of Raja.

The AIADMK has asked the Election Commission to ban Mr Raja from campaigning for the Tamil Nadu assembly election. It has also filed a police case against the DMK leader.