Is Tamil Nadu Finance Minister an American citizen? Viral claims

On 30 May, the claims of current Tamil Nadu Finance Minister Palanivel Thiagarajan being a citizen of the United States went viral. Editorial member of the news portal Median Saravanaprasad Balasubramanian alleged in a Twitter post that scanning the US citizenship records revealed that Tyagarajan was an American citizen. Thyagarajan had responded to similar allegations on 20 May and used ‘Gomutra’ to reply to the accusing netizen

s. In the post, Balasubramanian said, “A scan of the US citizenship record shows that Palanivel Thyagarajan, the current Finance Minister of Tamil Nadu, is an American citizen. As per Indian law, It is illegal for a foreign national to contest or vote in any election. Palanivel Thyagarajan appears to have violated Indian law and needs to be investigated. Also pay attention to his wife’s name. Here is the proof. In a tweet, he referred to a Facebook post by Naranthiran PS, where he claimed that Tyagarajan’s record as a US citizen has been found. https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1888566171311165&id=10000473401304 In a follow-up post written in Tamil, he wrote, “It is usually possible to know information such as a US citizen or green card holder. 

Or H1-B Visa. If you pay for it as already stated. The information I have taken about a finance minister from Tamil Nadu is also taken from one such company. I’m staying with it Although I can get more information from this. ” He elaborated on how one can take US citizenship and said, “Further ministers can prove themselves in this way. The truth is that it does not take even five minutes. But let’s wait and see if he does. “When we tried to search the US citizenship database on instantcheckmate.com, we found a record linked to the name Palanivel Thiagarajan. Although two people may have similar names, the thing that caught our attention was the names of potential relatives which included “Margaret Rajan”. Source: InstantCheckmate It should be noted that Thiagarajan is married to an American citizen named Margaret and has two children. After leaving India in 1987, Tyagarajan lived in the US for 20 years. Margaret was his classmate and later married him. In 2007, after the death of his father, He returned to India. In 2011, he moved to Singapore for a job and lived there for four years. In 2015, he returned to India for good and contested in 2016 under DMK. Thiagarajan laughed at these allegations

This is not the first time that Thiagarajan is facing charges related to his citizenship. On May 20, an anonymous Twitter handle made similar allegations in which the user claimed that Tyagarajan had an OCI card. TN minister used cow urine to counter allegations of being a US citizen. He quoted the tweet using the ‘cow urine’ jib and said, “Filtered idiots have gone mad from drinking too much urine – alleging that I am on OCI card holder (who can’t even vote).” The anonymous account has since been suspended. He returned to India for good and contested in 2016 under DMK. Tyagarajan laughed at these allegations. This is not the first time that Tyagarajan is facing charges related to his citizenship. On May 20, an anonymous Twitter handle made similar allegations in which the user claimed that Tyagarajan had an OCI card. TN minister used cow urine to counter allegations of being a US citizen. He quoted the tweet using the ‘cow urine’ jib and said, “Filtered idiots have gone mad from drinking too much urine – alleging that “I am on the OCI cardholder (who cannot even vote).” The anonymous account has since been suspended. He returned to India for good and contested in 2016 under DMK. Tyagarajan laughed at these allegations. This is not the first time that Tyagarajan is facing charges related to his citizenship

. On May 20, an anonymous Twitter handle made similar allegations in which the user claimed that Tyagarajan had an OCI card. TN minister used cow urine to counter allegations of being a US citizen. He quoted the tweet using the ‘cow urine’ jib and said, “Filtered idiots have gone mad from drinking too much urine – alleging that “I am on the OCI card holder (who cannot even vote).” The anonymous account has since been suspended. An anonymous Twitter handle made similar allegations in which the user claimed that Tyagarajan had an OCI card. TN minister used cow urine to counter allegations of being a US citizen. He quoted the tweet using the ‘cow urine’ jib and said, “Filtered idiots have gone mad from drinking too much urine – alleging that “I am on the OCI card holder (who cannot even vote).” The anonymous account has since been suspended. An anonymous Twitter handle made similar allegations in which the user claimed that Tyagarajan had an OCI card.

 TN minister used cow urine to counter allegations of being a US citizen. He quoted the tweet using the ‘cow urine’ jib and said, “Filtered idiots have gone mad from drinking too much urine – alleging that “I am on the OCI card holder (who cannot even vote).” The anonymous account has since been suspended. “Filtered idiots have gone crazy drinking too much cow urine – alleging that I am on OCI cardholder (who can’t even vote). The anonymous account has since been suspended. “Filtered Idiots have gone mad from drinking too much urine – alleging that I am on the OCI cardholder (who can’t even vote).” The anonymous account has since been suspended.