Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu on Monday took strong exception to Governor RN Ravi’s Dravidian identity remark. The governor had said that “new identities like Dravidian and Aryan came after the British colonial rule and became points of division” at the launch event of the complete works of RSS idealogue Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya on Saturday.
Stating that the governor gets irritated at the very utterance of the word Dravidam and has been continuing his verbal war against it, the minister said the governor has been ‘doing everything else perfectly except his duty to accord assent to the Bills adopted by the state Assembly.’