Tamil Nadu BJP leader Annamalai whips himself in protest against Anna University sexual assault
The Hindu
Anna University sexual assault case: Tamil Nadu BJP president flogs himself in protest against sexual assault in Chennai, vows to go barefoot for 48 days.
In protest against the sexual assault of a girl at Anna University in Chennai and wanting to oust the DMK Government in the State, the Tamil Nadu Bharatiya Janata Party president K. Annamalai on Friday (December 27, 2024) flogged himself in front of house, barefoot.
Mr. Annamalai stood before journalists and thousands of party cadres and whipped himself six times. Also, he had vowed to go barefoot for the next 48 days.
Later, talking to journalists, he said the stir that the BJP has undertaken (today) will intensify. This agitation is not against an individual but against deteriorating standards of education, economic depletion, police apathy in women security issues. Citing the reason for self-flagellation, he said that by hurting one’s own self, he was punishing himself for having committed sin knowingly or unknowingly.
Recalling his days as a police officer, he said “I had investigated a ten-year-old girl rape case and the case ended in successful prosecution. At that point in time, the girl’s mother questioned me on whether I will be able to give back her daughter”. This question made me travel in politics.
In the Police Department, the question of a technical glitch resulting in the FIR leaking out has no room, he said. The FIR copies will be circulated to the court and the victim and no one else has the right to get the FIR. Releasing the FIR is a tool to silence the other victims.
Quoting the Chennai City Police Commissioner A. Arun, Mr. Annamalai wanted to know in what context the victim was quoted saying the police action was satisfactory. The word satisfactory would be appropriate, if the criminal had been imprisoned when he made the first attempt of sexual assault a few years ago.
“After deep deliberation, I took a decision not to wear foot wear until the DMK government that indulged in all wrong doings is ousted.”
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