Mobs, FIRs, bulldozers — Savukku Shankar’s home vandalised, Kunal Kamra’s venue trashed. Who’s behind the crackdown? Find out on First Things Fast.
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00:00A YouTuber in Chennai, a comedian in Mumbai, both under attack for doing their job.
00:16March 24, Chennai, YouTuber Savakku Shankar's house is vandalized, a mob shows up dressed
00:21as sanitation workers, they ransack the house, they pour sewage mixed with human excreta
00:26all around, they abuse his mother, smash up everything.
00:30When I visited my home, I entered and saw my mom was completely shattered and they have
00:36thrown faecal material and sewage material in the entire house, in the dining table,
00:43in the bed, in the kitchen, in the vessel.
00:45Savakku Shankar has been a known critic, extreme critic of the DMK government and also in fact
00:50he was arrested not once but twice under goonda attack and he was like you know multiple charges
00:56Why?
00:57Because Savakku questioned a scheme launched by Chief Minister M.K Stalin.
01:00He said powerful people were handing sewer cleaning vehicles to their proxies, who got
01:04paid without doing any work.
01:06Savakku says only the police knew his address.
01:09He's accused the Chennai Police Commissioner and a Congress MLA of orchestrating the attack.
01:14The case has now been handed over to CBCID, Savakku has shut down his YouTube channel.
01:20Meanwhile in Mumbai, Kunal Kamra cracks a joke, calls Maharashtra Deputy CM Eknath Chinde
01:24a gaddar, a traitor and all hell breaks loose.
01:29Shiv Sena workers trash Habitat studio where Kamra performed.
01:32The BMC shows up, demolishes part of the venue.
01:35Kamra gets an FIR and now they're probing his phone records.
01:39Chinde defends his men, says every action has a reaction.
01:43Kamra does not flinch.
01:44I won't apologise, he says, I don't fear this mob, he adds.
01:48Attacking a venue over a joke is like smashing a tomato truck because your butter chicken
01:52sucked, he quips.
01:53This is not just about Savakku or Kamra, DMK or the BJP.
01:58This is about power, silencing dissent with mobs, FIRs and bulldozers.
02:04Tell us what you think.
02:05I'm Manish Adhikari, thank you for watching First Things First.