Chennai: Facing fierce protests from the jallikattu activists who accused her of slandering the women demonstrators at the Marina, writer and animal welfare activist Radha Rajan on Sunday clarified that her statement on ‘free sex’ doing the rounds on social media “is not a factual account” of what she said.
In an interview to an international news agency, she had said that she would not agree that mere gathering of crowds for an occasion reflected righteousness.
“If you say the topic is separate Tamil Nadu, you will get 25,000 people. If the topic is ‘free sex’, you will get a crowd of 50,000. I will not accept the argument that the mere gathering of a crowd makes the issue right, there are issues of law…” she had told the interviewers.
But the interview of Radha Rajan was twisted and trolled on social media as though she had slandered the women who had gathered for the jallikattu protest at the Marina.
Speakers, particularly the women protesters, lambasted her on TV channels. And a group of angry people marched to her house in the city.
Clarifying her interview, Radha Rajan said, “The free sex referred to a social movement among a section of people in a western country and the political movement referred to a north Indian state”.
She had not mentioned any state or people and “the words, Tamil, Tamil women, were not mentioned at all”.
Besides, the telephonic media interview had happened more than 20 days ago, much before the current jallikattu protest began.
“I request the people of Tamil Nadu to accept my clarification and to please end the protest against me. I know this statement has hurt the Tamil people for which I tender an unqualified apology”, she said.
