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Krishnasamy stopped from entering Madurai villages

By R. Ilangovan


MADURAI, MARCH 26. The Puthiya Tamizhagam leader, K. Krishnasamy, was today
prevented from entering the three reserved villages of Pappapatti,
Keeripatti and Nattamangalam in Madurai district where filing of
nominations for local bodies poll comes to a close tomorrow.

A strong mob attacked his convoy at Karumathur village while he was
returning to Madurai. A few of his men sustained minor injuries. The
windowpanes of three vehicles were also damaged. Caste Hindus of
Nattamangalam had, earlier, erected a barricade of iron rods and stones at
the village entrance to prevent Dr. Krishnasamy from coming in. A group of
villagers, armed with stones and sticks, blocked the entry.

Tension started building up when the police and revenue officials made the
Dalit leader to wait on the middle of the road for nearly two hours,
awaiting `clearance' from higher-ups for his visit to these villages. The
Usilampatti Revenue Divisional Officer came to the spot after an hour and
held discussions with Dr. Krishnasamy. He said as the villagers of
Pappapatti, Keeripatti and Nattmangalam had decided to file nominations
tomorrow, Dr. Krishnasamy's visit now would vitiate the atmosphere.

The police officials, citing law and order problems, stopped him at a
distance of about two kilometres from Nattamangalam. They claimed that his
visit would create a hostile atmosphere in these villages, dominated by
Piramalai Kallars. The situation in Nattamangalam, they said, was already
tense. The police also told the Dalit leader that they would not be in a
position to provide adequate security to him if he insisted on entering the
villages.

Dr. Krishnasamy accused the district officials of denying him the
fundamental right of visiting these villages. ``It was a shame on
democracy,'' he said. The police had never denied permission to enter
these villages when they were informed about his tour plan. But they failed
to provide him adequate security, he said, accusing the caste Hindus of
these villages of adopting a belligerent attitude. He said the Dalits in
these villages were living in perennial fear.

After nearly three hours of persuasion, he returned to Madurai without
entering these villages.

Earlier, in the morning, the District Collector, S. Ramachandran, visited
these villages and tried to convince the people to participate in the
democratic exercise.

He, however, left before Dr. Krishnasamy's arrival.

Meanwhile, no nomination had been received for the three village
panchayats, till today.

Responses:

• From: Nambi (@ cache-hay-hsi.cableinet.co.uk) on: Fri Mar 29 07:43:01
  
  Kallars are the shame for Tamils. They are the
  Brahmins among Tamils. But unfortunately AIADMK
  depends on their votes
  
  
• From: Bramins_R_Motherfukers (@ 203.199.240.159) on: Fri Mar 29 09:23:12
  
  
  The urine drinkiing bramins are products of incest are worse than pigs and peruchalis and are to be eradicated in larger wellbeing of society. That s why elders have advised that when you encounter a snake and a bramin together, ignore the snake and crush the bramin.
  
  
• From: Bramins_R_Motherfukers (@ 203.199.240.159) on: Fri Mar 29 09:26:13
  
  
  The urine drinkiing bramins are products of incest are worse than pigs and peruchalis and are to be eradicated in larger wellbeing of society. That s why elders have advised that when you encounter a snake and a bramin together, ignore the snake and crush the bramin.
  
  
• From: Bramins_R_Motherfukers (@ 203.199.240.159) on: Fri Mar 29 09:27:52
  
  
  The urine drinkiing bramins are products of incest are worse than pigs and peruchalis and are to be eradicated in larger wellbeing of society. That s why elders have advised that when you encounter a snake and a bramin together, ignore the snake and crush the bramin.
  
  
• From: passionuall (@ ppp75-226.dsl-chn.eth.net) on: Fri Oct 8 03:11:28
  
  My Dear friends, the things which is going in Keeripatti and Nattarmangalam Panchayat is nothing but not casteist hatred but hatred amongst the government decision to keep the panchayat as reserved. The thing is there is some 20 houses are for the Adidravidas and 800 families are from The Piramalai Kallars so even in other villages if a Nayakar Dominated village no nayakar will allow an other caste or a Vanniyar dominated village they won't elect a other caste candidate. This was the real truth coz., our society and our people are like that. But why should the government announced it as a Reserved Panchayat that is condemnable. So these Kallar people are resisting the elections. They seek the government to reconsider it as a general panchayat. What's wrong in this. And why this Political leaders are involving in to this small hamlet of papapatti, keeripatti, Nattarmangalam panchayat. Why should they come to these villages to instigate caste violence to light up the fire in the hearts of the illiterates. They will bring the goondas and hooligans and lit up the caste feud so the government must decide and announce these panchayats as General Panchayats. This will end up all the idiocy which it done.
  
  
• From: Tamilan (@ illchn-static-203.199.196.228.vsnl.net.in) on: Fri Oct 8 06:03:57 EDT 2004
  
  The pappapatti and keeripatti is a mockery of democracy, because in democracy majority wins. When majority of devars are prohibited to contest and reserve that for dalits are not fair. If any one who care for democracy should condemn the resevation of those panchayats to dalits. The best solution is dalits should give away such places and find a place where they have majority
  
  
• From: dr elangovan (@ illchn-static-203.199.220.67.vsnl.net.in) on: Tue Oct 12 07:24:29 EDT 2004
  
  I agree with tamilan but this has to be done by govt. Moreover, Krishnasamy belong to devendra kula vellalar claiming obc status and thinking as kshatriya should not make undue political mileage from this "parayar" issue. No parayar will support or vote for this double talk Dr.If he is in Tirunelveli he talks of devendra kula vellalar and in chennai he talks about dalits[parayars]. He should be clear like Dr.Ramadoss who supports only vanniyars.
  
  
• From: tamilan (@ illchn-static-203.199.196.228.vsnl.net.in) on: Tue Oct 12 10:32:31 EDT 2004
  
  The pity is the dalits are always taken for a ride by their Dalit leaders and no one else. These opportunistic lots betray their own people for the sake of money and play a second fiddle to brahmins. They insticate violence to stay in news and has no good qualities or deeds noteworthy. Dr. is one such man.
  
  
• From: dr elangovan (@ illchn-static-203.199.220.128.vsnl.net.in) on: Wed Oct 13 06:46:40 EDT 2004
  
  The pity is the dalits are always taken for a ride by their Dalit leaders and no one else. These opportunistic lots betray their own people for the sake of money and play a second fiddle to brahmins. They insticate violence to stay in news and has no good qualities or deeds noteworthy. Dr. is one such man ------------------------this will applicable to all castes ie., shanmugam, sethuraman,kannappan etc.,
  
  

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