Sources from Chennai have stated that a speech by actor politician Radharavi comparing political rivals to disabled children to ridicule them has triggered uproar among activists. The video of the speech, in which Ravi, with mocking gestures, narrates a story of two disabled children pleading to join a game and the manner in which they are rebuffed by other children, has gone viral.
What made it worse was the laughter it evoked from the gathering at an event to celebrate DMK working president M K Stalin's birthday on March 1. Meanwhile Deepak Nathan of December 3 Movement (for persons with disabilities), who staged a public protest in Chennai and demanded an apology from the actor, lodged a complaint with the Teynampet police.
Nathan had said that "Radharavi's
speech was inhuman and insensitive. It is a criminal offence to poke fun at the
differently abled. This is not the first time, however, that politicians are
making fun of us”.
