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New Delhi/Karur: A social media post by Aadhav Arjuna, deputy general secretary of actor Vijay’s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK), has triggered widespread backlash amid the aftermath of the Karur rally stampede that killed 41 people.
In a now-deleted post on X, Arjuna urged Tamil Nadu’s youth to follow the example of young protesters in Sri Lanka and Nepal, calling for a “youth revolution” against what he described as a “wicked government” and warning that state authorities had become mere servants of those in power. The post read, in part: “If the police have become mere servants of those in power, the only way to restore order is through a youth revolution. Just as young people and the Gen Z generation united against authoriti