AIADMK Election Ad With Student Who Died By Suicide Deleted After Outcry
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Tamil Nadu School Education Minister Ma Foi Pandiarajan deleted the video on Twitter featuring 17-year-old Anitha.
Tamil Nadu School Education Minister Ma Foi Pandiarajan has deleted a controversial video posted on Twitter showing a student topper and medical aspirant who had died by suicide over the NEET medical entrance test seeking votes for the ruling AIADMK after widespread outrage including from her family. Using old videos of the medical aspirant from the scheduled caste community, the tweet suggested 17-year-old Anitha would praise the ruling AIADMK's new 7.5 per cent reservation for government school students in medical admissions saying, "Never in the history of Tamil Nadu have more than 400 poor students have had the chance to study medicine. Jayalalithaa's rule has given this opportunity. Don't forgive DMK which destroyed the medical dreams of 17 students. The ink in your hand is our life." Slamming Mr Pandiarajan, Anitha's brother said, "You've proven you are worse than a worm that feeds off a corpse. Please remove the video." Sharing a new video on Twitter, Mr Pandiarajan claimed the campaign ad featuring Anitha was posted without his permission and he had nothing to do with it. He said, "I don't have any intention to slander anyone. It had been posted without my permission. Appropriate action will be taken against whoever had done it. An FIR would be filed with cyber-crime as well."More Related News