CHENNAI: Tami Nadu’s ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) on Friday introduced the suspension of chief senior chief and spokesperson KS Radhakrishnan from the first membership of the celebration, a transfer that comes only a day after he mocked ally Congress’s newly elected president Mallikarjun Kharge in a submit on Twitter.
Within the submit that has since been deleted, Radhakrishnan shared a meme that described Kharge as Manmohan Singh 2.0, a reference to the oft-repeated claims by the Congress’s rivals that the true energy within the UPA authorities led by Manmohan Singh was wielded by Sonia Gandhi.
DMK common secretary S Duraimurugan made the announcement of the motion in opposition to Radhakrishnan on Friday.
Duraimurugan mentioned Radhakrishnan was suspended from the first membership and all different celebration positions for “violating celebration self-discipline and fascinating in acts that carry disrepute to the celebration.”
The immediate and strict motion in opposition to Radhakrishnan got here days after chief minister and DMK boss MK Stalin cautioned his ministers and senior celebration leaders to watch out and never set off controversies by their statements.
“On the one hand I’m the chief of the DMK, on the opposite I’m the chief minister of Tamil Nadu,” Stalin instructed them on October 9 as he began his second tenure as DMK president. In the identical speech, Stalin underlined that a few of his celebration leaders had been placing him in an embarrassing state of affairs and giving him “sleepless nights”.
The notice of warning was made within the backdrop of upper training minister Okay Ponmudi’s remark that appeared to belittle girls for availing of the state authorities’s scheme free of charge bus journey. Final month, former minister and MP A Raja’s touch upon Hindus and Shudras additionally provoked outrage.
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