Tamil Nadu BJP's SG Suryah arrested; Union minister's dig at Rahul Gandhi, Jack Dorsey
SG Suryah had accused Madurai MP Su Venkatesan of not taking adequate action following the death of a hygiene worker after he was made to clean a drain. Bharatiya Janata Party's Tamil Nadu secretary SG Suryah was arrested by the Madurai district’s cyber crime police on Friday night in connection with his recent tweet against MP Su Venkatesan, drawing criticism from Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar and state president K Annamalai. In the tweet, Suryah had accused Venkatesan of not taking adequate action following the death of a hygiene worker after he was made to clean a drain filled with faeces. In a letter to Venkatesan, Suryah had strongly criticised the incident. “Your fake politics of separatism stinks worse than that cesspool, find a way to live as a human being, mate!” tweeted Suryah. Describing the arrest of Suryah as “highly condemnable”, Annamalai alleged that his only mistake was to “expose the nasty double standards of the communists, allies of DMK”. “Using state mac...