At the protest, Udhayanidhi criticised Governor RN Ravi saying, “Who are and what authority do you have? Are you a people’s representative? You are just a postman.”
Hari Prasad, a student of Government High School in Kalugumalai, was subjected to casteist harassment at school when he tried to defuse a fight between two students and was later attacked by a gang in his hometown.
In the letter, CM MK Stalin says that the delay in granting assent to the bill has caused immense anxiety and stress in the minds of people and have led to ‘sad incidents of suicides’.
In the days after the brutal attack, it was revealed that Chinnadurai’s dominant caste schoolmates subjected him to prolonged caste-based harassment and abuse because of his being a Dalit who excelled in studies.