Tamil Nadu leader minister MK Stalin on Thursday accused `BJP participants from north Indian states’ of spreading ‘faux information’ – approximately the alleged attack on Bihari migrant employees. He claimed a ‘politically encouraged plot’ in opposition to his authorities, and talked about the rumours – viral on social media and shared with the aid of using a few media publications – emerged an afternoon after he known as at the competition to unite in opposition to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party earlier than the 2024 election.
He became regarding remarks made ultimate week – for the duration of his birthday celebration – at which there had been requires him to be the competition’s top ministerial face. Stalin these days stated his country is domestic to human beings from throughout India and that ‘Tamils love brotherhood… This is widely recognized to the northern country brothers here’.
“You can recognize the plot in case you word this (spreading of the rumours) became finished the day when I spoke approximately the want for a united, national-stage alliance in opposition to the BJP. Few human beings created faux films… unfold fake information. BJP participants from north Indian states did this with awful intentions,” he stated.
Stalin careworn he had spoken to his country’s pinnacle police officers and Bihar leader minister Nitish Kumar, and that the latter’s authorities had expressed ‘complete satisfaction’ after a delegation checked at the protection of Bihari migrant employees.
“Post this faux information I inquired and spoke to Bihar leader minister Nitish Kumar. There aren’t anyt any such incidents in Tamil Nadu… DGP (Sylendra Babu) has given clarification. Even Bihar delegates visited and again with complete satisfaction,” the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam chief stated.
Stalin, TN authorities attain out
On Tuesday Stalin additionally visited a few migrant communities – to allay apprehension and panic over the faux films of assaults on Bihari employees. On the equal day, senior DMK chief TR Baalu – his party’s chief withinside the Lok Sabha – known as on Nitish Kumar in Patna to guarantee him of migrant employees’ protection. Stalin has additionally spoken to Nitish Kumar at the telephone.
What happened?
Tamil Nadu has a huge populace of employees from northern states like Bihar, who paintings in numerous sectors, along with textiles and construction.
From March 1 4 films – claiming awful assaults on Bihari migrants – commenced circulating. The Tamil Nadu authorities realised this may spin out of control, and reached out to the migrants and acted in opposition to the ones spreading the rumours.
One such video became investigated and junked as having been synthetic with the aid of using a Jharkhand local and his pals to create unrest a number of the migrant workforce.
TN, Bihar police act
Police in each states have taken action. Tamil Nadu pinnacle cop Babu informed reporters ‘someone in Bihar’ had published the faux films; one, he stated, became of a combat among corporations of migrants and some other became among locals in Coimbatore.
Bihar Police’s Additional Director General, Jitendra Singh Gangawar stated reviews a migrant employee became killed became a suicide case made to seem like murder.
This week Bihar Police arrested one man or woman and filed instances in opposition to others for dispensing misinformation, at the same time as their Tamil Nadu opposite numbers red-flagged a video dispensed with the aid of using a Bihar ‘journalist’ who additionally attacked Nitish Kumar for mendacity to the human beings of his country, after which tagged top minister Narendra Modi.
Police in Tamil Nadu have filed 12 FIRs – in opposition to people and institutions, along with the Bharatiya Janata Party, a senior country legitimate stated Wednesday.
A case became filed in opposition to the BJP’s country leader K Annamalai and some other in opposition to the party’s Twitter handle. Another became in opposition to an Uttar Pradesh BJP chief – Prashant Umrao – who were given pre-arrest bail Tuesday from the Delhi High Court.