TN BJP secy held for tweet on CPM MP

Madurai city cyber crime police arrested BJP state secretary S G Suryah over his recent tweet castigating CPM’s Madurai MP Su Venkatesan for remaining silent after his party’s councillor allegedly forced a worker to undertake manual scavenging, leading to his death. CPM has called Suryah’s claim a misinformation campaign, saing no such thing had happened. Suryah’s tweet on June 7 claimed that a conservancy worker was forced by Madurai Pennadam town panchayat 12th ward councillor Viswanathan to work in sewage water mixed with faecal matter. The worker got infected and died. Questioning Su Venkatesan’s ‘silence’ over the incident, he said, “The hypocritical politics of the MP stinks more than a manhole.” On June 12, CPM’s urban district secretary M Ganesan and party workers submitted a petition to Madurai city police saying that Suryah has undertaken a campaign to malign Venkatesan’s image. Suryah was booked under sections of the IPC and IT Act, including for acting in a manner likely to promote enmity between groups.