Anti-caste activist Kausalya gets stick for her anti-India remarks

Anti-caste activist and survivor of honour killing Kausalya who has has been working as a clerk at the Wellington Cantonment Board in Nilgiris district have been suspended for making a remark against the sovereignty of the country in a recent interview to the news channel.

According to officials in the Cantonment board, she has been suspended for a period of six months and the officials weighing options of terminating her from service at the next cantonment board meeting.

The action has been initiated on Kausalya for her interview to the BBC on the "What is means to be an Indian" campaign.

Kausalya was provided with a clerical job at the cantonment board following the murder of her dalit husband Shankar in a broad daylight by a gang hired by her father in March 2016. The CCTV footage of the honour killing telecast by the news channels shocked the nation. Shankar died on the way to the hospital while she survived with head injuries. After attempting to end her life, she transformed herself as an anti-caste activist and campaigning against the caste based oppression. She re-married a Parai musician Sakthi, in December last year.

Kausalya's suspension has come after a strange demand made by an influential caste party leader in Western Tamil Nadu seeking shunting her out of the cantonment to any other central departments. Days after her re-marriage, ER Eswaran of Kongunadu Makkal Desiya Katchi, an ally of BJP, wondered how could Kausalya who is leaning to an ideology that is against the government establishment work in a place with access to military secrets? "The Ministry of Defence can relieve itself from the issue by transferring her out to some other government department. The government should consider it," he demanded in a statement on December 10 last year.