‘Poison of caste has permeated even young minds’: Stalin airs concern over Nanguneri discrimination row

Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Saturday expressed concern over the Nanguneri caste discrimination incident and said that the law will take its course against those connected to the case had been apprehended.

“The incident shows how deeply caste poison has permeated even the young students. It is intolerable to continue to hate people over caste and have differences without recognising our fellow men as equal, and to express such hatred violently,” Stalin said in a social media post.

Stalin advised the younger society that they should realise that there should be no hatred and prejudice among us.

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Meanwhile, Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi, Minister for School Education has offered to bear the medical and educational expenses of the students brutally assaulted in the incident.

Six juveniles from a dominant caste attacked their fellow mate belong to Scheduled Caste and his younger sister with sickles inside their home at Nanguneri in Tirunelveli district on Wednesday night after he complained to the school headmaster about their harassment. All the accused were arrested hours after the incident under multiple sections, including the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.

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