Chennai, March 26 -- Whistleblower turned controversial Youtuber A Shankar, known popularly as 'Savukku' Shankar, on Tuesday blamed Tamil Nadu Congress chief G Selvaperunthagai for an attack on his house after he exposed an alleged scam in a central and state government-sponsored scheme for Dalits. Selvaperunthagai denied the charges, while Shankarshut down his Youtube channel 'Savukku Media' on the same day.

On Monday, a group of 20 people, some of them dressed as sanitary workers, barged into Shankar's residence in Chennai's Kilpauk when his mother A Kamala was alone and dumped sewage waste and human faeces in the residence, and verbally abused her, Shankar alleged. Visuals uploaded by Shankar on X also showed these workers calling him...