“When Karunanidhi Govt Shot Down Farmers Who Were Protesting Against Power Tariff Hike”, The Commune, January 15, 2026
“The Congress has called for a ban on the pro-DMK propaganda film Parasakthi for distorting history, defaming Indira Gandhi, and more importantly spotlighting DMK leader Karunanidhi as a hero. A few days ago, Congress leader Trichy Velusamy, in an interview with a YouTube channel, questioned why no one spoke about the farmers agitation that took place in a village near Tiruppur.
In the interview he said, “You are still thinking that they are protecting Tamils in that film. After he came to power, after Karunanidhi became Chief Minister, within just two or three years, do you know that there was a farmers’ agitation? All over Tamil Nadu there was a big agitation. In how many places did police firing take place? You may not know because of your age. On a single specific day, in only two villages there was police firing and 25 people died. Those two villages are Pethanayakkanpalayam and Perumalnallur. Perumalnallur is a small village near Tiruppur, which might have grown a bit now. The other village, Pethanayakkanpalayam, is a small village near Attur in Salem district. At that time in the Assembly, from Pethanayakkanpalayam 13 or 14 people had died. In the Assembly, a Congress MLA said that in that village, farmers who were protesting had been wrongly shot dead. What the Chief Minister replied is still there in the Assembly records. He said, “The Congress party member is giving wrong information. The dead are not farmers; they are anti‑social elements. They came to attack the police station. To protect the station and themselves, the police fired back, and they died in that firing.” The funny part is, until that very minute there was not even a police station in that village. People who indulge in such fraud and thuggery, what qualification do they have to make this kind of film? Reality is something else.”
Now let us take a look at this piece of history from 1972 that Dravidianists do not want to talk about……”
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