TN CM turns emotional says God will punish DMK leader Raja

Chennai, Mar 28 (PTI) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K
Palaniswami on Sunday turned emotional while reacting to DMK
leader A Raja's alleged disparaging remarks against him, his
mother and said a mother occupied a lofty position in society
and anyone who denigrated women would be punished by God.
A day after the AIADMK lodged a police complaint against
Raja for his comment, Palaniswami, obviously sad, denounced
the offensive language used by the rival party leader.
As he tried to speak up in a campaign in north Chennai,
the Chief Minister's voice choked and he turned emotional.
If a person who occupied the position of Chief Minister
could be targeted in such an objectionable manner, what would
be the position of ordinary people, he wondered.
"Think, what kind of a situation our women and mothers
would face if such people capture power?" he asked.
Police have filed a case against Raja for his offensive
allegation, an insinuation about Palaniswami's birth.
He appealed to the people to give people like Raja an
'appropriate punishment' apparently through ballots.
Whether rich or poor, a mother is accorded a very high
position in the society and whoever made disparaging remarks
against a mother or women would be punished for sure by the
God, Palaniswami said.
AIADMK workers and cadres of alliance parties including
PMK on Sunday held protest demonstrations in several regions
of Tamil Nadu seeking the arrest of Raja. PTI VGN
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