Tamil Nadu state Bharatiya Janata Party Secretary SG Suryah was arrested by the Madurai police, on Friday over his social media post against Madurai MP Su Venkatesan.
He was arrested based on a complaint filed by Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) district secretary Ganesan.
SG Suryah, in a letter addressing the CPI(M) MP Su Venkatesan, accused a CPI(M) councilor in Pennadam in Madurai of forcing a man to clean the sewers which allegedly led to his death. In a tweet, he said, “A sanitation worker lost his life because of a communist councilor – Madurai MP Su Venkatesan maintains fake silence! Your fake politics of separatism stinks worse than that cesspool, find a way to live as a human being, comrade! @SuVe4Madurai @MaVeWriter.”
However, there was no Pennadam town panchayat in Madurai and there was no councillor named Viswanathan.
The BJP leader was booked under sections 153A (promoting enmity between different groups), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace), 505(1)(b), 505(1)(c) (statements conducing to public mischief) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and 66(D) (punishment for cheating by personation by using computer resource) of the Information Technology (IT) Act.
Condemning the incident, the State BJP president K Annamalai said on Twitter, “The arrest of @BJP4TamilNadu State Secretary Thiru @SuryahSG avl is highly condemnable. His only mistake was to expose the nasty double standards of the communists, allies of DMK.”
