CHENNAI: A speech selling superstitions by a self-styled motivational speaker at two govt faculties in Chennai triggered a political and social outcry, resulting in the switch of each the headmasters. The speaker, Mahavishnu, claimed that there have been mantras to carry firestorms, treatment ills and do teleportation.
He attributed deformities akin to blindness and social inequalities akin to homelessness and the disparity between poor and wealthy to sins dedicated in earlier births.
Movies of a visually handicapped instructor confronting the person and questioning such an unscientific discourse went viral on Friday morning, prompting protests. A number of political leaders, together with AIADMK‘s Edappadi Ok Palaniswami and PMK’s Dr Ramadoss, demanded motion.
An incensed college schooling minister Mahesh Anbil Poyyamozhi mentioned motion will probably be taken in opposition to the person, who calls himself Mahavishnu, for insulting the visually challenged instructor on a college campus.
The college administration ought to have checked Mahavishnu’s background earlier than inviting him for the discuss. They’ve made a mistake,” he informed reporters.
He mentioned a committee will conduct an inquiry to search out the particular person accountable for conducting the occasion. “We’ll provoke motion in a single or two days,” Poyyamozhi mentioned.
He visited the Ashok Nagar college and felicitated the instructor for boldly confronting the speaker in the course of the occasion. A group headed by college schooling director S Kannappan carried out an inquiry with the lecturers in regards to the incident.
Jurisdictional assistant commissioner of police additionally visited the campus and held an inquiry.
Following this, R Thamilarasi, headmistress of Govt Women Greater Secondary College in Ashok Nagar, was transferred to headmistress of Govt Greater Secondary College at Pennalurpet in Tiruvallur district. Ok Shanmugasundaram, headmaster of Govt Mannequin Greater Secondary College in Saidapet, was transferred as headmaster of Govt Greater Secondary College at Anaicut in Chengalpet district.
“I felt the speaker handled all the in another way abled neighborhood poorly throughout his speech. He preached superstitious ideas inside the college, which is in opposition to the foundations. College is a secular place,” Shankar, the in another way abled instructor, informed reporters.
Protests had been held and complaints lodged by varied organisations, together with the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) and the Dec 3 Motion, condemning Mahavishnu’s controversial speech and in search of motion in opposition to him below the Rights of Individuals with Disabilities Act.
Mahavishnu addressed the scholars on Aug 28, the video of which surfaced on social media on Thursday.
