BJP slams 'ISIS-style hatred' as DMK supporters behead goat in Coimbatore to celebrate Annamalai's loss | WATCH

In a very unsettling video that has gone viral on social media, DMK supporters in Coimbatore openly decapitate a goat as a picture of K. Annamalai, the leader of the Tamil Nadu BJP, is hanging from its neck.

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A win at a seat in Loksabha elections is different and celebrating it by symbolically disrespecting a candidate is a new level of low. Following Annamalai's June 4 loss against DMK candidate P. Ganapathy Rajkumar in the Coimbatore Lok Sabha constituency, a video surfaced showing a goat that was slaughtered on top of a photo of Annamalai. 

Annamalai replies 

After the video surfaced on internet, when asked on the same Annamalai asked, "Stop the savage activities of cutting innocent creatures on the road. if DMK is so upset and frustrated with me, they can directly come to me, I will always be here to face you.."

What's in the video? 

The goat is shown in the video being beheaded by a man with a lung and a sickle while two other people hold it upright. Children's voices chanting slogans in the background imply that the heinous deed was carried out before them. After that, the camera pans to a picture of the BJP leader dangling from the goat's neck. As seen in the video, DMK followers chanted "Annamalai Aadu (goat) sacrificed" after "sacrificing" the goat.

"Barbaric is an understatement... This is ISIS-style hatred," BJP national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla said about the video as it went viral on social media. In Coimbatore, different political parties celebrated their victory by butchering a goat with an Annamalai image. Annamalai comes from a farming family that raises goats. The DMK has made fun of Annamalai in the past for her goat farming.

Imagine if BJP employees attacked an opposition member in this way; they would call it fascism, but in places like Bengal and Tamil Nadu, where there is such extreme animosity, the "Save Constitution brigade" and pseudo liberals remain mute." "Will the cops in Tennessee take action? Will this be covered by the media? This is an incitement to violence, not symbolic hatred, Poonawalla continued. "This is how the anti-Santan I.N.D.I Alliance will slaughter the Hindus if they ever come to power," declared Amit Malviya, the head of the BJP's IT cell, in response to the film.

Coimbatore's politics

In the Coimbatore Lok Sabha seat, Annamalai was defeated by Ganapathy Rajkumar of the DMK by a margin of more than one lakh votes. In a constituency where the Dravidian heavyweights and the BJP engaged in a triangular contest, the BJP president was able to secure 4 lakh votes. Singai G. Ramachandran, the candidate for the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, was demoted to the third rank. The Election Commission of India (ECI) statistics indicate that the DMK secured 22 of the 39 seats in Tamil Nadu, while the BJP managed to secure none.

This is how netizens reacted to this!

"This is how Annamalai's political adversaries 'celebrated' the DMK victory in Tamil Nadu: they killed a goat in full face of the public, emblazoned with an image of Annamalai. Savage. If the anti-Santan I.N.D.I Alliance ever gains power, this is how they will massacre the Hindu population. According to preliminary data, three out of four Muslims voted for the Congress alliance in 2024. increased from 2/4 in 2019. 

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The BJP was not the only group to strongly criticize the video; online users also requested a thorough inquiry and harsh punishment for the men in it.