“Tamil people are asking us why we didn’t leave. “We were stressed and afraid too, so we thought we would leave,” said Asha, who has learned to speak a bit of Tamil after two years in the state. Disinformation was spread by the usual suspect - WhatsApp forwards.Īnd the BJP’s aggressive political presence helped amplify it. But this macabre twist was new in Tamil Nadu. North Indian migrants are used to the everyday anxieties and micro aggressions that surround them – accusations of taking away locals’ jobs and not learning the local language. Bihar’s deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav was among those who had attended Stalin’s birthday gathering on 1 March. Stalin has said that ‘lies’ were spread by BJP members because he gave a call for opposition unity.

Then it entered the mainstream, with national newspapers such as Hindustan and Dainik Jagran running headlines like “Murderous attack on Hindi-speaking workers in Tamil Nadu”. Tweets about the purported attacks and “public murders” were going viral by the end of February.

Fake videos claimed that locals from Coimbatore and Tiruppur - both migrant hubs - are brutally attacking Biharis. Rumours of violence against North Indian migrants began to grip Tamil Nadu mid-February. Almost everyone here had seen the video of three men brutally attacking someone by hacking at his limbs with a sword, first hands, then legs, as he ran away bleeding.

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