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Savukku attacked, Kunal Kamra targeted – silenced for speaking out!
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3/25/2025
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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A YouTuber in Chennai, a comedian in Mumbai, both under attack for doing their job.
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March 24, Chennai, YouTuber Savakku Shankar's house is vandalized, a mob shows up dressed
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as sanitation workers, they ransack the house, they pour sewage mixed with human excreta
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all around, they abuse his mother, smash up everything.
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When I visited my home, I entered and saw my mom was completely shattered and they have
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thrown faecal material and sewage material in the entire house, in the dining table,
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in the bed, in the kitchen, in the vessel.
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Savakku Shankar has been a known critic, extreme critic of the DMK government and also in fact
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he was arrested not once but twice under goonda attack and he was like you know multiple charges
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Why?
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Because Savakku questioned a scheme launched by Chief Minister M.K Stalin.
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He said powerful people were handing sewer cleaning vehicles to their proxies, who got
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paid without doing any work.
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Savakku says only the police knew his address.
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He's accused the Chennai Police Commissioner and a Congress MLA of orchestrating the attack.
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The case has now been handed over to CBCID, Savakku has shut down his YouTube channel.
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Meanwhile in Mumbai, Kunal Kamra cracks a joke, calls Maharashtra Deputy CM Eknath Chinde
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a gaddar, a traitor and all hell breaks loose.
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Shiv Sena workers trash Habitat studio where Kamra performed.
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The BMC shows up, demolishes part of the venue.
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Kamra gets an FIR and now they're probing his phone records.
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Chinde defends his men, says every action has a reaction.
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Kamra does not flinch.
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I won't apologise, he says, I don't fear this mob, he adds.
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Attacking a venue over a joke is like smashing a tomato truck because your butter chicken
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sucked, he quips.
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This is not just about Savakku or Kamra, DMK or the BJP.
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This is about power, silencing dissent with mobs, FIRs and bulldozers.
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Tell us what you think.
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I'm Manish Adhikari, thank you for watching First Things First.
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