Outrage Over DMK Ally’s Comment On Late-Night Couples

Thiruchengode MLA E.R. Eswaran, a DMK ally, faced backlash for saying that a man and woman being out late at night is “social degradation” after the Coimbatore gang-rape case. Critics, including BJP’s K. Annamalai and Congress MP Karti Chidambaram, condemned the remarks as victim-shaming and regressive. Eswaran defended it as a moral education issue.