He claimed that villagers of Nagapattinam district were unable to claim benefits assured by the scheme following his visit to Keezhvenmani village. RN Ravi also visited Nambyar Nagar inhabited by fishermen and Jeeva Nagar by Scheduled Castes. He said, “It is tragic that the deserving poor villagers of Nagapattinam district are not able to get the benefit of PM Awas Yojana due to administrative apathy and alleged corruption.” In this village of Nagapattinam district, more than 40 agricultural labourers were burnt alive by a landlord five decades ago in 1968.

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Tamil Nadu Governor in a social media post of X (formerly Twitter) noted to the stark contrast between the high cost concrete memorial with thatched shacks of the poor in Keezhvenmani village. He stated, “A humongous high cost concrete structure in Keezhvenmani village as a memorial, to commemorate the massacred 44 poor labourers, in the midst of thatched shacks of the poor all around by a political party that claims to champion the proletariat is not only ironical but a mocking insult to the martyrs and the poor.”