Ramadoss lashes out at Rajni, calls for boycott of his films

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Ramadoss lashes out at Rajni, calls for boycott of his films

POOMPUHAR: The whole state might be waiting for the release of super star Rajinikanth's latest film BABA, but PMK founder S Ramadoss has chosen to command his Vanniyar followers to boycott the film.

Addressing the annual Vanniyar Women's Festival on the sands of Poompuhar in Nagapattinam district Sunday night, he blasted the actor for being a very ``bad role model'' for the Tamil youth and actually teaching them smoking and drinking.

He also pounced on the media for projecting his party in a bad light and threatened to paralyse the entire newspaper industry in the state if the scribes did not change their ways.

The acerbic Ramadoss's outburst comes in the wake of Rajini's speech in Bangalore on Saturday urging the arrest of forest brigand Veerappan who, incidentally, is also a Vanniyar.

The PMK leader recalled that the actor had described Veerappan a "rakshasa" and noted the brigand was a Tamil. Rajini himself hails from a Bangalore-based Maharashtrian family, but Ramadoss did not refer to that factor explicitly.

"The man who lives in Tamil Nadu and lives on the income provided by the Tamil audience is said to have sold his latest film for a whopping Rs.79 crore, but he has never done any good to the Tamils. He has only spoilt the youth...If he was indeed brave, Rajini should have gone to the rescue of Kannada actor Rajkumar when he was in Veerappan's custody....," Ramadoss jibed.

As his ravings reached a feverish pitch, he commanded the Vanniars not to see Rajni's films or form any fan club for him and finally declared,"His films should not be screened in Tamil Nadu."

He also trained his guns on the media with equal vehemence. He took umbrage over the way a section of the press was damning him as a "tree-feller" simply because a hundred trees were cut down during the agitations demanding reservations for the Vanniars in the eighties.

Regretting that the media would not take note of the planting of two lakh saplings on a single day by the Pasumai Thayagam, an NGO run by his son Anbumani and which focusses on environmental issues, he also found fault with the reporters for constantly badgering him to spell out his stand on the LTTE.

He charged that they only wanted him to make some statement that would lead to his arrest under POTA and reminded them sternly that they had to remember to whom they were selling their newspapers and magazines.

"We're restrained at the moment. Don't provoke us or you will have to pay for it all. If only I go around the state, there would be dire consequences. Suffice it is for me to drop a hint to Vanniar Sangam president Kaduvetti Guru, not a single newspaper would hit the stands," he


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