00:00It happens, members will be from all the states, but today only members from Tamil Nadu, so you are giving the floor, but I wish the other party leaders could also be given, so that the contribution of those members are very remarkable.
00:13Just it is my request. Sir, being a member of this house is really a prestige. It's an honor. Not everyone gets that.
00:25So many people who have worked very hard in this nation for the people would not have had the opportunity to enter into this noble temple of democracy, but having been a member and retiring, as my brother Vyko told, it is painful.
00:42But I consider this is not party. The echoing of their voice in this hall just ceases, but their voices will be echoed in every part of this nation for the welfare of the people.
00:57This is not the end of the road, sir. This is only a bend. This is not a farewell. It is an honor to the contribution they have by way of deliberation given in this August house.
01:11Everyone. Vyko, my senior brother and our forerunner in the students' organization, when I was a student in the college, he was my joint secretary in the state level, and all of us spoke in a meeting and went to MISA detention the next day, sir.
01:29From then on, we have been together, and his articulation, everyone here knows very well. For more than nearly three decades, he has been in the parliament, and of course, all his speeches are remarkable here and outside.
01:44And to mention here very much about Mr. Shanmukhum, sir, the great trade union leader, who has done a lot to the trade union community, not only in Tamil Nadu, sir, but whole of India, and that too is deliberations.
02:01He eased my burden in this house that whenever any labor issue came, I was not least worried that my party will be represented by Mr. Shanmukhum. I will miss him terribly, sir.
02:11His presence was so much of help to me. So also, my brother Abdullah, who has also been here for a time, he is also a contributor. Wilson is coming back. Chandrasekar may belong to another party, but he is also a dear colleague.
02:29He quoted Baraj Dasan, and he spoke with great pride that it belongs to the Tamil, and Tamil language, Hori, and ancientness. I appreciate him, sir.
02:41And again, I say, sir, it's not a farewell. We cannot part. Love is something different.
02:47Thank you, sir.
03:17As like Anna attracted through speech, like the same way as a brother of Anna, Vaiko, attracted the most of the Tamil people through speeches that we cannot remember.
03:32Always we are having as a leader also still. Therefore, even though, just he said, so many issues raised about Tamil Nadu, the fisherman issue, so many issues,
03:43as our leader also, as our floor leader said, is always a fighter for the cause. He never ambitioned to become any ministered in post. That is his leader.
03:52He would have got many times. My party leader, Pranjit Alamma Amma, at that time, 1988, requested him to become ministered in the cabinet in the Pajibai government.
04:03He refused. Next time also, he has given for others. He never aspired for the minister post.
04:10Politicians ever even were coming think, we want to become, that is the ambition.
04:15But he, he gave in for his followers.
04:19He never, that is, shows his sacrifice for the party and how he served.
04:24Therefore, he is only for the cause, not for the post. This kind of thing. Therefore, we are missed. Yeah, I think hope, once again you come back, there is a chance, it's there, opportunity.
04:35In the politics, there is no end. I swear, I say, Shiva said, there is no farewell. This is not a farewell. It's the only felicitation.
04:42What they have contributed. That way, I remember, sir, and also, as Sanmugam regarding, Kedun leader, he said, Delhi, man, he has guide for us. He has always guiding us.
04:53Because I also started my movement from DMK Universe as a student. Then afterwards, when MGR started, I joined that movement. That is different.
05:02Which from that day, still continuously, in one party only. I never changed my party. That is it.
05:08Like, why I am telling, Sanmugam also, throughout his career, he struck that party. Never changed. He obeyed his leadership.
05:18Even though he contributed a long time for the State Union. This time, we got the opportunity to come to this house. That is the parliament.
05:26Therefore, he is always champion for the labor that he shows. His speech also expressed that.
05:32But many speeches participated in the debate. He said about the labor issue only. That is the root. That is, we have come over, not only labor in the sense, not only online labor, all society in the people are laborers.
05:45Dr. John Britas. Dr. John Britas.
05:50Sir, thank you, sir. Sir, since Vaikoji described me as one of the three musketeers.
05:56And he told me that, I need to speak my heart out. Please bear with me for two minutes extra.
06:04Sir, Vaikoji is a phenomenon. And I hugely benefited sitting beside him, sir.
06:12I was inspired by his presence. And I moved out a couple of days ago to this seat, precisely to express my solidarity with Vaikoji.
06:24Since he is returning, I don't want to be there anymore.
06:28Sir, we are short of adjectives when we speak about Vaikoji.
06:33We can speak about him being resilient, tenacious, and having an indomitable spirit.
06:40Sir, if one person who has fire in the belly in this house, that is Vaikoji.
06:47Sir, he stepped in this house half a century back, almost 47 years back.
06:58And me having an opportunity to sit beside him, I cannot forget about, sir.
07:04Sir, the meaning of being firebrand, that was explained by Madam Nirmala Siddharamanji yesterday.
07:13When the house was adjourned, we were having an informal chat.
07:17She said that the sum and substance of what she spoke was this.
07:20When Vaikoji, Vaiko spoke in Tamil Nadu, at that time, people couldn't take out a piece of paper.
07:30It would have caught fire.
07:32That was how he spoke in Tamil Nadu.
07:37Sir, with my journalistic insight and memory,
07:41I clearly remember his voyage through the dangerous seas,
07:47dodging Indian Navy and Sri Lengen Navy to go to Jafna to meet Prabhagar, the LTT Supremo.
07:55It was controversial.
07:57It was headline.
07:58But that journey is part of the Tamil political lore, sir.
08:05And one more, if you ask me who was the real tiger,
08:08I would say it was not Prabhagar, it was Vaiko.
08:11He was the real tiger.
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