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A 22-year-old B.Com student, Dhanushree, died in a road accident in Bengaluru Monday. Police labeled it a hit-and-run, saying the tipper lorry driver fled, while eyewitnesses and the JDS party blame poor road conditions. Witnesses claim she swerved to avoid a pothole on Bipinali Main Road when struck.
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00:00Another day, another pothole-related death or murder in Bengaluru.
00:06Killer pothole striking once again.
00:08A girl has been killed while avoiding a pothole.
00:11A 22-year-old Dhanushree crushed by a truck in this city.
00:15A student killed by a road mishap.
00:17Cops denied the pothole link, claimed this was the case of hit and run.
00:21But a 22-year-old BCom student, Dhanushree,
00:24lost her life in a road accident near the Budigire cross on Monday morning.
00:29According to the DCP Whitefield, this incident was a hit and run case,
00:33with the tipper lorry driver fleeing the spot after running over the victim.
00:38However, the JDS has alleged that the tragedy was caused by the poor condition of roads and potholes
00:43that forced the student to lose balance before being hit by the lorry.
00:48The police have registered a case at the Avalahali Police Station.
00:51They are investigating this matter further.
00:55A girl was on the way to her college.
00:59On our Bipenalli main road, she was travelling on her bike and from the opposite tipper lorry came
01:07and there was a big pothole.
01:10And at that point of time, the tipper lorry has hit and run her.
01:14So on the spot itself, she's flown away from the bike and she's met with an injury.
01:22And she's spotted at that point.
01:25All right, I'm going to go straight across to Sagay Raj for more details.
01:48Sagay here, the police are saying that there is no connection with a pothole.
01:51This is a simple case of hit and run at the end of the day.
01:54Questions obviously being raised about the condition of the roads.
01:58A young girl has lost her life in this horrific, horrific fashion here.
02:03Absolutely, multiple questions have been raised when it comes to potholes on bad roads in the city of Bangalore.
02:09And we can notice that this particular incident has happened on National Highway, which is near close to K.R. Puram.
02:14And according to eyewitnesses, they claim that there was a pothole and she was trying to avoid the vehicle.
02:19That time when she was moving this side from the opposite direction, there was a vehicle which was coming.
02:24And she was trying to avoid a pothole.
02:26But the opposite side, which was driving very fast and very rashly, has hit her.
02:31And she flew from one side and the vehicle fell down the other side.
02:34And she succumbed to injuries at the spot.
02:36And the police have registered a case and investigating further.
02:39However, the police have denied that it is due to potholes or bad roads.
02:43They claim that it is because of the rash driving of the driver.
02:46And he immediately escaped from the spot.
02:48And the police have registered a case and investigating further on the tape.
02:51Coming back to you for more on that in a moment from now, earlier this month,
02:56India Today had spoken exclusively to Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister, D.K.
03:00Shiv Kumar on the issue of the pothole menace.
03:03Listen in to what D.K. has said at the India Today Conclave.
03:08According to me, we are more than 10,000 potholes.
03:12More than 10,000 potholes?
03:14Yes, yes.
03:15Of course, see, now looking at, you have got the, some whole numbers you might have got.
03:20I have come out with a concept that I have asked citizen,
03:25who sees a pothole, let them make a small video and send it to the corporation.
03:32I think last month we cleared about 5,000.
03:35How many?
03:365,000.
03:37You cleared 5,000 potholes?
03:39Still 5,000 potholes?
03:40Still 5,000 potholes are there.
03:42Still 5,000 potholes.
03:43I am, I am, I am, I am not, I should not tell this, because someday already I have come out
03:48in the media also, this number.
03:50Still we have more than 5,000 potholes.
03:52Now, that is why I have looked at, this is, management is very risky.
03:58Bangalore is not a planned city.
04:00Even I have seen in Delhi also, the major roads, main roads may be okay.
04:05Main roads may be okay.
04:06But internal roads, still less problem, even in Delhi or any part of the country.
04:12With this, Bangalore is not a planned city.
04:14As, New Delhi is there.
04:18Even if you go to the outer Delhi, the older Delhi, worse than this.
04:22Any part of this one.
04:24But, I don't want to compare with other cities.
04:27We have to do our job right.
04:29We have to do, I am planning it out.
04:32It is not one day solution.
04:35I am to see that the entire Bangalore will be covered with a white topping of this concrete
04:41roads.
04:41Almost 60 percent, we have tried to cover all the major roads as of today.
04:47It is costing about 13 to 14 crores a kilometer.
04:5230 years minimum, we will have the, it will be stronger, 30 years.
04:59You will take 30 years to do this project?
05:01No, no, no.
05:02I am telling you, this white tapping roads, which we are doing, concrete roads, already
05:07about more than 300 kilometers, we have done this.
05:09Major roads.
05:11I am telling you on the major roads.
05:13It is a very big challenge which we have taken.
05:15I am going to go back, in fact, to Sagay for more on that.
05:18Sagay, the government has said within a month's time, we will be fixing all those potholes.
05:22It is what the government had indicated.
05:24Talk to us a little about the progress, really, on that front, Sagay.
05:27There are multiple initiatives which have been taken by Karnataka government, where the government
05:34have instructed people to go ahead and download an app which allows you to click the pictures
05:39and send it across to the Greater Bengaluru Authority officials, and they will immediately
05:43address those potholes.
05:45If at this point, you can escalate the issue.
05:47And apart from that, there is also the funds which have been given.
05:50However, so far, the government claims that they have a field of potholes.
05:54The question, the larger question which has been raised by the public as well as activists
05:57are, that when you are well aware that, of course, also there are many potholes which
06:02will emerge, why there are no precautionary measures taken by the Karnataka government,
06:06why they have to wait for a person to die and wake up after that, why you don't take an
06:12initiative must before all those things happen, and ensure that you clear the roads during
06:16the summer.
06:17Because when you lay the roads during the summer, it will be even more stronger, and
06:21all those, the cement and everything will not feel out.
06:24And when you try to lay a road during the moulson season, again, if there are rains, more
06:29rains coming in, and that's when the roads get spoiled, and there is no point of filling
06:33the potholes during the rains, and which will not get any kind of solution for the people.
06:38So these are the questions which have been raised, and time and again, whether it has
06:41BJP or Congress or anybody else, people have to ultimately suffer, and there is no proper
06:47solution, proper progress, when it comes to these kind of potholes in the future.
06:52We're going to leave it at 5 for the moment, Sagaraj, getting in those details, continue
06:55to be with us.
06:56We have, in fact, more news coming in.
06:58Let's take a look.
06:59Let's take a look.
07:29of Bengaluru, their black mass protest, Sagaraj continues to be with us.
07:33Sagaraj, these protests, speaking volumes of the disgruntlement in a sense of dissatisfaction
07:39with the authorities in doing what they are supposed to be doing, which is their job, protecting
07:45the people from the menace, really, of potholes in your city.
07:49Absolutely.
07:50To the officials who have to do this, however, the public have come out.
07:53And in this particular video of what you're getting to see here, the BJP worker, Anish
07:57Shetty, who is protesting on the potholes wearing a black mass.
08:00And if you notice that two days back, there was protest on the pothole where people were
08:04performing potholes to ensure that nobody falls into that and get injured or get killed
08:09in that particular pothole.
08:10So, there are multiple protests, multiple messages that people want to send across to the government.
08:15Government, as he spoke to India today, they have taken caucuses of it.
08:20But the question is, why there is a delay?
08:22Why they have to wake up only after some kind of untoward incidents have been reported?
08:27Why there are no precautionary measures that have been taken by the government?
08:29But people, all these things could happen.
08:31I'm going to leave it at that for the moment.
08:33Sir Gehraj, getting in those details on that big story that we are tracking from the city
08:39of Bengaluru.
08:39All right, we have more news coming in at this point in time.
09:01Let's take a look at these developments as far as the controversy over the Vijay Rally here
09:05is concerned.
09:06The big story that we are getting at this hour is from Karoor.
09:10After the stampede in Karoor left dozens dead, Tamil Nadu police have arrested three more
09:16people for allegedly inflammatory social media posts.
09:19Adding to the tragedy, a 51-year-old TVK functionally has allegedly died by a suicide,
09:25leaving behind a note blaming the state's inadequate police protection.
09:29Directly holding Minister Santil Balaji responsible, TVK campaign general secretary Aadha Varjana
09:35stoked a controversy there.
09:37DMK government on an arrest spree, clearly after the stampede, after TVK Nita, Zana, the
09:45functionary has been arrested.
09:46Functionary Masi, Paundraj has been arrested.
09:50DVK's Mati Yazagh, Basi Anand.
09:54Nirmal have also been arrested.
09:57More arrests in case of social media posts being put out over this horrific stampede.
10:03YouTuber Felix also arrested for allegedly insightful posts, is what we know.
10:08Apoorva, Ajayachandra, I'm getting in more details on that story at this point.
10:13In time, it's free of arrests that continue.
10:16As far as the DMK administration, the government here is concerned, but much accountability on
10:21the part of the government, isn't it?
10:23As far as the law and order situation is concerned, this really, Apoorva, is their responsibility.
10:28Well, in fact, Sneha, we're right outside the Karoor police station where Mati Aadha, who
10:38is a top TVK functionary as well as Masi Paundraj there, one of the yet another TVK functionary
10:44from Karoor.
10:45They have been arrested, picked up late last night and they have been brought here to
10:50this Karoor police station that you can see out here as well.
10:53This is where both of them have been brought in for questioning.
10:56Remember, in this tragic accident, over 41 innocent lives have been lost.
11:02These including 10 children out there, you know, who have lost their lives in this as
11:07well.
11:07We are yet to see a proper video or, you know, some kind of explanation from Vijay or his
11:13team, whereas there has been a complete brick back of sorts that has been going on constantly
11:18between political parties here in the state of Tamil Nadu.
11:21You know, be it from the DMK, they are standing firm saying that the ruling government is ensuring
11:27anything and everything can be made possible to help the public who have in need of any
11:33financial aid, medical aid or what not.
11:36We still see a lot of people who had been injured still receiving treatment at the Karoor
11:42government hospital there, be it in the ICU ward or even in general ward as well where
11:48they are receiving treatment, several of those who have deceased, like I said, the number
11:52is not a small number.
11:5341 innocent lives have been lost in this stampede.
11:56And even today, you know, you can still see at that very spot where this campaign of Vijay
12:03had taken place.
12:04Even there, you can still see chappels that have been strewn over across the road that are
12:10still, you know, left to be either swept away or collected back.
12:14So, you know, the situation on ground is quite abysmal.
12:17That's all, you know, you can get from here.
12:19So far, the Tamil Nadu government has also ordered an action against over 25 people for
12:27propagating false news and fake news, hate mongering and fear mongering amongst people
12:34on social media, on digital platforms like Twitter, YouTube and other areas as well.
12:3925 people, you know, those names have also come out.
12:42And now, since yes, late last evening, Mati Argan as well as Masi Poundraj, both of them
12:50hailing from Karoor who are top TVK functionaries here from Karoor who had been also one among
12:56the organizers for this event here in Karoor, the incident that took place in Karoor on Saturday.
13:02Those two are also among the people who have been held responsible.
13:05They have been brought into custody by the Tamil Nadu police and are kept for investigation
13:11right here at the Karoor police station where we are presently at.
13:16Apoorva, be with us.
13:17I'm just going to come back to you for more.
13:19We have information that is coming in as far as this horrific stampede here is concerned.
13:25Take a look.
13:26TVK, functionary held wife has broken down.
13:30Top Vijay aid has been held for homicide.
13:34Matiyazak was arrested last night.
13:37Wife pleads with cops to meet Vijay aid.
13:39TVK Neta's face heat.
13:42Cops and babos are scot-free.
13:4341 deaths in the Vijay Rally stampede here.
13:51Apoorva continues to be with us for more on that.
13:54You know, Apoorva, talk to us a little about how the leadership of the TVK is looking at
13:59this situation, even as disturbing pictures of a woman.
14:03They're crying for the arrest of the TVK functionary, a husband there who's been held for homicide.
14:09Not one, but several TVK functionaries are facing these charges, isn't it?
14:13Well, that's right.
14:17In fact, what visuals you can see here is the wife of Matiyazak who has gone ahead and spoken there.
14:24She's in fact said that she has no whereabouts of where her husband has been kept.
14:30And that's what she's also pleading with the police as well, asking them for her husband's safety.
14:35Remember, Matiyargan is one of the top TVK functionaries here in Karur district who has
14:41been brought in, taken into custody by the police here.
14:45In fact, as you can see at the police station where he has been brought in, there is a movement
14:49here and most likely they will be, you know, brought out after their questioning as well.
14:55We can also see, you know, that Matiyargan as well as, you know, Masi Poundraj, these are
15:03the two functionaries from Karur who had also been part of the internal team who had been
15:08organizing this grand, so-called grand event from, you know, so-called grand event from
15:18TVK that was scheduled to take place, that took place on Saturday.
15:23And unfortunately, in that event, we saw several lapses that had been there.
15:27Number one, there had been an absolute lapse in terms of the estimates that they had given.
15:32They had asked for permission for over 10,000 people to come for this, you know, road show
15:38and a speech.
15:39But then what was that it turned out easily over 30,000 people who had come in from various
15:46parts of the city and the state as well.
15:48I'll just come back to you, Apoorva, in a moment from now.
15:51In fact, we'll go across to these pictures also coming in.
15:53So I told you like that you're standing on the wall when I'm coming in.
15:55I'll just put on it here, you know, the other ones, I'll just put on it.
15:58And I'll just put on it.
16:00And I'll just put on it here, I know that I'll just move.
16:01And we'll be out in the mountains from now, and it'll be inside and in the outspers.
16:03And I'll be out here, I'll be out there.
16:05I don't know who else would get me to get me up and so on.
16:12I mean, I don't know who else would get me to get me to get you to get me up again.
16:17I would not say that because I like you to get me up, but I don't know how to get me up.
16:24So, I don't know who else.
16:25I couldn't have done that.
16:26No, no, no.
16:28I wasn't sure I had to get me up.
16:31You can see the plight of Matiyargan's wife, she is crying and she is saying she has no
16:46idea about the whereabouts of her husband Matiyargan, where he has been taken I have no idea is
16:53what she says.
16:56She pleads to the police and to anybody who is hearing to say about the whereabouts
17:02of where he has been taken and brought.
17:09I have no idea where he is.
17:19Neither the government nor the police have responded to us where he is that I plead with
17:24the police or with the government officials to please tell me where my husband has been
17:30kept.
17:32I kindly plead with you to at least show him once in front of my eyes.
17:45I have been asking each and everybody but yet nobody has given me a proper response as
17:54to where he is.
17:56Alijas Matiyargan's wife there crying.
18:00Even I had been at the hospital after the incident had taken place.
18:05I had also received treatment but I still don't know the whereabouts of my husband.
18:10I have also been injured.
18:14Neither has the police officials nor anybody from the government side have given me any idea
18:23as to where my husband is.
18:28I kindly plead that you please let me know where my husband is or at least show him in
18:33front of my face so that I can be able to have some peace.
18:52I haven't slept since the last two days.
19:02I am perplexed as I don't know where my husband is or where he has been taken.
19:20In fact there is a wife of the TVK functionary who has now been arrested.
19:30Remember this in connection with the horrific stampede that took place and has killed 41 people
19:37who are present in the rally of actor Ternita Vijay.
19:42Days after the stampede in Karul left dozens dead.
19:45Aadha police have arrested three people for allegedly inflammatory social media posts.
19:50According to the authorities, a 51-year-old TVK functionary has allegedly died by suicide,
19:56leaving behind a note blaming the state's inadequate police protection, directly holding Minister
20:01Central Balaji accountable.
20:03TVK campaign General Secretary Adhav Arjuna stoked the controversy with a social media post alleging
20:09that there was a latte charge during the rally.
20:11Adhav claimed that youth will rise against the Skappan, just like it happened in Nepal,
20:16in Sri Lanka.
20:17However, after the uproar of the post, the TVK deleted it.
20:21Meanwhile, AIADMK Chief Edipati Palensami has launched a scathing attack on the DMK, accusing
20:26the Chief Minister of indulging in a photoshoot politics.
20:31Edipati Palensami has questioned the Deputy Chief Minister Udayaniti Stalin's Dubai trip right
20:36after visiting the hospital.
20:39In response, the DMK hit back, strongly accusing EPS of hypocrisy.
20:43Education Minister Anbhil Mahesh has alleged that AIADMK leaders staged political drama during
20:48former Chief Minister Jaililita's hospitalization, even used a dummy body in a bipolar campaign
20:53to garner sympathy.
20:55There are multiple requests from multiple sources.
21:00The governor has sought a report and this government has constituted a one-woman commission.
21:05They have already started the inquiry on the ground.
21:07Multiple requests at multiple times will not do justice for this.
21:11It has to be one cause and one action.
21:14Even TVK has filed the National Human Rights Commission to take up this case.
21:20So…
21:21Vannakam.
21:22Vannakam.
21:23Vannakam.
21:24I am Hema Malni from… member of parliament from Lok Sabha.
21:41Our national president has constituted NDA delegation of eight members and all our members are here,
21:54all from Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha.
21:58We have come to visit Karoor and look into the matter, see what happened and how these circumstances
22:06led to this kind of incident.
22:09And we, our national president NDA ji and all of us have come here to express our heartfelt
22:19condolences to the family who lost their very dear ones.
22:25And also visit the hospitals to console the patients who are there.
22:31And then we will get back to know what actually happened, we will get the report later on.
22:36Thank you so much.
22:37Vannakam.
22:38Vannakam.
22:39Vannakam.
22:40Vannakam.
22:41Vannakam.
22:42Vannakam.
22:43Vannakam.
22:44Vannakam.
22:45Vannakam.
22:46Vannakam.
22:47Vannakam.
22:48We haven't had the finance minister.
22:51It's a eight member MPs delegation from NDA member like Dr Shrikang Shрindenji,
23:02Meheiji and others are all already here.
23:03We are here to visit and meet the local people, administration members, officials and want to know what happened that day and to give a report to our national president and also to meet the families who have lost the day one.
23:33We are here to meet the local people, and we are here to meet the local people.
23:43What is your personal opinion on this?
23:47We will give an opinion after we come back.
23:51After the visit?
23:54We are here to meet the local people.
24:09We are here. I will repeat it again what Hema Ji has said.
24:21Our heartfelt condolences to all the families who have lost their family members.
24:27And we pray for the speedy recovery of who are injured and are hospitalized.
24:33We are here to meet the officials to get the information what led to that kind of situation.
24:40Whatever time takes to meet all the family members and the officials, we are going to spend here.
24:47This is a delegation of MPs who come with a purpose to get the facts from the grassroot level, from the officials to the local people.
24:59That is why our senior party leaders, the current BJP state president and the former president is here.
25:04The other senior members are also here.
25:06And members of the NDA.
25:11So there is no hurry for us.
25:14We are here to meet everyone.
25:16We want to meet them when they lost their dear ones.
25:21We don't want such incident to happen in the future.
25:24Lessons to be learnt from this.
25:26Who is at fault? What went wrong?
25:29So we are here for a serious purpose.
25:33And most of them, they arrived in Delhi from their native places at 1 o'clock at night, 2 o'clock at night and again reached the airport at 5.30 in the morning.
25:43So you can well understand that the decision was made yesterday, afternoon only.
25:49And everyone has reached from Odisha, from Hyderabad, from Maharashtra, from Karnataka, from Mathura, Himachal Pradesh.
25:57So we all stand together with those people who have lost their family members.
26:01All right, in fact, you heard from the BJP delegation that being led by Hema Malini MP, talking about the probe, saying that we seek a thorough probe in this entire matter.
26:27This is an NDA delegation, a team in Tamil Nadu.
26:30They are looking into the horrific stampede that killed 41 people.
26:34This, remember, was in the rally that was organized by TVK chief Vijay, who is now seeking electoral inroads into the state of Tamil Nadu.
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27:09It's revealed here is a revenge attack plot on Hindus, is what the cops have indicated.
27:15Getting in more details as far as the temple attack in Coimbatore from 2022 is concerned.
27:27In fact, what has been revealed is a revenge attack plot on Hindus and cops.
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27:59Chidambaram reveals UPA terror in action, says bowed to global pressures, spared Pakistan.
28:05166 dead, Congress abandoned them.
28:092611 revenge was something that Congress did not take, is what the ex-home minister has said.
28:16UPA buckled under global pressure.
28:18Mantri Kiran Rajuju has attacked Congress's 2611 kid gloves.
28:23He said India paid the price for Congress's sins.
28:27former home minister P. Chidambaram has spoken about the fact that India at that point in time buckled under global pressure.
28:38And treated Pakistan with kid gloves is what has been indicated.
28:42Something that has been told by Kiran Rajuju already.
28:46166 people were dead.
28:52Congress abandoned the 2611 revenge.
28:56H.P. Chidambaram, who was not the home minister at that point in time, has now spoken about this.
29:02But he of course served as the home minister during the UPA regime.
29:06He's spoken about the fact that U.S. stopped us from acting against Pakistan.
29:11It's a big confession on the part of the former home minister.
29:15This international pressure, which led the UPA government to refrain from retaliating against Pakistan,
29:22is what former home minister A.P. Chidambaram has said.
29:26These comments of course have ignited affairs backlash from the BJP,
29:30labeling the admission as too little, too late.
29:34He said the Congress said UPA government had decided to not retaliate against Pakistan after the Mumbai terror attacks due to intense international pressure as well as the Ministry of External Affairs stance.
29:52Piyush is getting in more details on that story.
29:55Piyush, the fact is that P. Chidambaram, of course, served as the home minister at that point in time,
30:00was not the home minister when 2611 took place.
30:03has spoken about the fact that internally as well there were problems and that's the reason why there was never any retribution in that sense.
30:11Of course, giving enough opportunity to the BJP to go against and to criticize these comments against them, isn't it?
30:18Well, absolutely, Sneha. We will see more leaders, union ministers of BJP to come out and slam P. Chidambaram
30:31and the then-Congress government, UPA government for not taking actions after the 2008 terror attacks.
30:37Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs and Minority Affairs has come out with a post and let me quote what he said.
30:43And I quote, the country paid heavy price for the sins committed by the Congress party.
30:48Time has changed. India won't tolerate any terrorist attack now.
30:52So, that's the message which the government is saying that, sending that we are not going to tolerate any kind of terror attack
30:59and will retaliate back strongly.
31:01And that's what we also saw, Sneha, during the Operation Sindhu, you know, when the Pelagam terror attack happened.
31:07After that, the government carried out multiple strikes against the terror camps in Pakistan.
31:14Still, the government has made it very clear that the Operation Sindhu has not concluded.
31:19It can resume any day, you know, if Pakistan carry out any kind of terrorist attack.
31:25So, the intention is clear of the government.
31:27I shall come back to you for more on that.
31:29In fact, Tom Vadakin of the Bharatiya Janta Party is with us.
31:32Tom Vadakin, you know, this is an admission from the former Home Minister,
31:36who was not the Home Minister when the attacks took place in Mumbai.
31:40You know, but the fact is that he speaks about the fact that there was a great amount of pressure from the US
31:46and that it did buckle under pressure is what Pichu Dambaram is now saying.
31:53Sneha, this is all going to be counterproductive for the Congress Party.
32:00They are trying to say we also would have done the same had the international pressure not come in.
32:07The fact of the matter was not the Home Minister at that juncture.
32:10Mr. Patel was the Home Minister.
32:13Now, we were closely watching the situation.
32:17There was a standby arrangement of the security team that was stopped for 24 hours.
32:26I'm sure that was not under international pressure.
32:30They delayed it.
32:32So, there is a theory that is running around which is supported by facts of the time that, yes,
32:41there was an internal pressure from the Congress leadership not to take action.
32:48This international pressure may have happened.
32:53I'm not denying that.
32:55But the government, the sovereign government of India says that because of foreign pressure, we did not retaliate.
33:03The fact of the matter is, retaliation was called for at that juncture.
33:08If it had been done, we would not have seen these bad days.
33:12And let me add that this is also an indication that the new India will not tolerate terrorism.
33:21Anytime any attack happens, Operation Sindur is a continuous process.
33:27We are on full alert.
33:29Any attempt to enter into our territory or do damage, we will retaliate on those terrorists.
33:36Our operations are not against civilians.
33:38Our operations will be against these terrorist camps and their mentors.
33:45Let that be clear.
33:46This is a new India under the leadership of Prime Minister Modi ji.
33:51You know, these comments, of course, speak volumes of how there was a sense of, you know,
33:58there was a sense of pressure that the Congress government felt at that point in time
34:03and also the fact that it decided to succumb under pressure is what is troublesome here
34:07because he goes on to talk about the fact that he was not the Home Minister,
34:11but he did communicate to whoever mattered is what he says that there has to be retribution,
34:16there has to be military action, and that this was decided that there will not be any retribution in that sense.
34:23And this is disappointing, you know, to say the least, isn't it, Tom Wadaka,
34:27and the very fact that just 166 people lost their lives in that fashion.
34:32Why would Congress government succumb to that sort of pressure is an answer
34:37that the Congress must answer at this point in time, a question that the Congress must answer.
34:43Well, it is certainly for the Congress party to answer these questions,
34:47and I'm sure this is Chidambaram's attempt to wash his hands of that period.
34:53He is informed who he is informed of questions.
34:58It's either Sonia Gandhi is informed, and it's the same Sonia Gandhi who had ordered through the government of the day
35:08to stop the security forces that was waiting.
35:14And the delay explains that the attack took its toll.
35:21And now when they come out with this kind of explanation, international pressure,
35:26that means your government had failed literally.
35:29Not only was it an intelligence failure, but it was also the kind of thought process
35:36that guided Mrs. Gandhi's government, I don't want to say Manmun Singh's government,
35:42Mrs. Gandhi's government, which she was doing backseat driving.
35:47So, let's put the situation very clear.
35:50Mrs. Gandhi was running the government.
35:53I'm going to leave it there for the moment thanking you for joining in with your thoughts.
35:58There's the BGP there saying that the Congress has got some serious answering to do SP Vaid.
36:02Former DGP, Jammu and Kashmir also with us, thank you for your time.
36:06You know, this is extremely disappointing that a confession of this kind has been made by P. Chidambaram,
36:11the former Home Minister, which we have to clarify, was not the Home Minister when these attacks took place.
36:16But Mr. Vaid, how do you look at this, the fact that the government, the previous government,
36:22now indicating that they indeed succumbed under pressure from the U.S. on not acting against Pakistan?
36:29Yes, it is very unfortunate that government was taking orders from Kondilipha Rice, the then Secretary of State.
36:39I don't think when it comes to your national security you should be taking orders from other governments.
36:49And look at our reaction at that time after, in the aftermath of Mumbai attack,
36:57we granted the most favored nation status to Pakistan when Pakistan is unleashing terror all across the country,
37:09including Mumbai, terrible attack on Mumbai, parliament attack and whatnot.
37:15What a sad state of affair.
37:18If this was our reaction, so only God can save you.
37:23Though Mr. Chidambaram was saying that not only the U.S. through Secretary of State,
37:30other countries were also wanting us not to take any action against Pakistan.
37:38Fine, that may be their advice, but then you have to be, you know, as far as your defending your countrymen,
37:51defending your citizen is concerned.
37:55I don't think you should be paying heed to what other countries were saying.
38:02It is the national interest that should be paramount.
38:05Look at today, so many countries are criticizing Israel, but when it comes to defending its citizens' right to live,
38:15they do not bother who says what.
38:18I think that is what India needs to pursue in the future.
38:22How do you see things changing over the last decade or so, Mr. Vaidh?
38:26You spoke about the fact that most favored nation status was given to, you know, to Pakistan on India's part,
38:32and that, of course, was revoked later, much later in the year 2019 as well.
38:37The difference in actions that the previous government had taken against Pakistan after attacks of nature
38:43and how things have changed under this government?
38:46Absolutely.
38:47After 2014, with Mr. Modi as Prime Minister, the country's policy has completely transformed.
38:58Now it is, this is not that India, it's a new India, it does not tolerate terror.
39:09So terror and talks cannot go on.
39:12What Prime Minister Modi said, look at the Sindhu treaty has been kept in advance,
39:24how much Pakistan is now will be paying price for that.
39:29It has been brought under tremendous pressure, including Operation Sindhu, the surgical strike, and the Walla Court.
39:39So that is the kind of policy that India needs to pursue.
39:44And under the leadership of the Honorable Prime Minister, I think India is completely transformed from those days of Mrs. Gandhi's government.
39:54All right.
39:55I'm going to leave it at that for the moment.
39:56I'm thanking you for joining in with your thoughts on that.
39:59It's a shocking statement that has been made by Pichu Damram.
40:02It comes 17 years after the horrific Mumbai terror attacks, wherein he says the government could have done much more.
40:09Retribution was on his mind, but the government chose not to.
40:13There was pressure from the U.S., is what the former Home Minister has categorically said.
40:18U.S. President Donald Trump has announced a sweeping 100% tariff on foreign films, a move that could hit India hard.
40:25It's unclear how the duty will be enforced since today's filmmaking is mostly digital and spread across borders.
40:31But the impact could be major.
40:33The Indian diaspora in America spends about $100 million annually watching Telugu, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Punjabi, Bengali, and other Indian films in U.S. theaters.
40:44Indians make up 1.6% of the U.S. population, yet draw audiences well beyond their community from Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Sri Lankan, Tamils, even locals who love India's diverse cinema.
40:57I'm going to go straight across to Sana Farzeen, getting in more details on that.
41:03Sana, talk to us about what the film industry is looking at this move and how it could possibly impact them.
41:10Absolutely, the Indian diaspora is huge in the U.S. and apart.
41:15The Telugu films are absolutely watched at a large scale and then comes the Bollywood films.
41:21There's Punjabi, Malayalam and even Bengali and Tamil films that are watched in the U.S.
41:28Right now, there's no official comment, but as per sources, as per the trades, they feel that the ticket prices will automatically rise because of this tariff.
41:39And definitely, if someone is paying 5 crores for a film to be sold in the U.S., that would cost now 10 crores and that would lead to a higher ticket rate.
41:51Definitely, the diaspora is so huge that this will affect the production cost.
41:56The producers will incur a huge loss because of this.
42:00But this will cause an adverse impact on the Indian film industry as the U.S. is one of the leading markets for Indian movies.
42:08There are almost 1,000 screens that are dedicated to Indian films at one point of time.
42:15And the announcement obviously has formalized following the signaling that Donald Trump did in May when he authorized the Department of Commerce and the U.S.
42:26trade representatives to begin the process of imposing steep duties on foreign films.
42:31He, of course, wants to safeguard the U.S. film industry and also wants them to make films in the U.S. and not spend that on cheaper labor costs.
42:43I believe that for the moment getting in those details is my colleague Sana Farzeen and the kind of empire that could possibly have on the Indian film industry.
42:53He adores you.
42:54You're not a superhero.
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