A political controversy has been triggered by a video of hate speech featuring Kongunadu Makkal Desiya Katchi’s Namakkal Parliamentary constituency candidate S. Suriamoorthi. In the video, shared widely on social media, he is heard speaking out against inter-caste relationships involving Scheduled Caste youth prompting questions on how such a candidate could be fielded by the INDIA bloc led by the DMK. Mr. Suriamoorthi is to contest on the DMK’s ‘Rising Sun’ symbol.
However, KMDK general secretary E.R. Eswaran claimed that the video was ‘fake’.
In the video, Mr. Suriamoorthi is heard saying that Scheduled Caste youth should not think about ‘getting rich’ by marrying women from Gounder community and threatens to murder SC youth and the Gounder women for falling in love.
