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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin announced successful the State Assembly connected Friday (October 17, 2025) that a Commission, headed by retired Madras High Court justice Justice K.N. Basha, volition beryllium constituted to clasp wide consultations and taxable recommendations to the authorities connected enacting authorities to forestall and code caste-based hatred crimes and killings successful the sanction of ‘honour’.
Mr. Stalin said the Commission volition comprise ineligible experts, progressive thinkers, and eminent sociologists. “The Commission volition prosecute with governmental organisations, ineligible experts, societal activists, and victims to question suggestions and supply recommendations. Based connected these, the State authorities volition look into enacting a instrumentality to forestall caste- and honour-based hatred crimes,” helium said.
The Chief Minister said that the propaganda surrounding societal reforms and punishments for crimes is akin to “a sword and a shield.” “It is important to enactment a afloat halt to each forms of ascendant mentality. It is our corporate work to physique a question that challenges specified a mindset and promotes equality, self-respect, and kindness towards humanity,” helium said. Mr. Stalin pointed retired that the State authorities has enabled radical of each castes to go temple priests and has ensured that an oath for societal justness and equality is taken each twelvemonth connected the commencement anniversaries of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar and ‘Periyar’ E.V. Ramasamy.
“In the State Assembly, connected April 29, 2025, I had announced that the connection ‘colony’, which has go a word symbolising untouchability and oppression, volition beryllium removed. In a determination towards removing caste signifiers successful schools and assemblage hostels, we renamed it ‘social justice’ hostels. Recently, erstwhile I met the Prime Minister [Narendra Modi], I placed an important petition earlier him that... the caste names successful Scheduled Caste database that presently extremity successful ‘n’ beryllium replaced with ‘r’, conscionable truthful that the communities whitethorn person the respect they deserve,” helium said.
Mr Stalin added that a fewer caller incidents successful our state person profoundly “pained us.” “They marque america question: Did our leaders conflict and sacrifice for this? Is this what we are warring against? The satellite is advancing successful cognition — but what prevents compassion from becoming widespread? That question torments each who judge successful reform. When Tamil society, which has gained worldwide respect for its intellect, and fights among itself, however tin that beryllium justified? A civilised nine cannot judge sidesplitting for immoderate reason. Not conscionable sidesplitting — adjacent hatred, humiliation, oregon unit of immoderate signifier cannot beryllium accepted by an enlightened community,” helium said.
The Chief Minister added that patriarchy besides hides down these caste-based hatred crimes, which denies women the close to determine their ain futures.
