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This special report from SoSouth covers major political and corporate upheavals across South India. The lead stories focus on Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's economic advisor Basavaraj Rayareddy exposing an alleged sand mafia causing a ₹400 crore revenue loss, and in Tamil Nadu, a blistering attack by T.T.V. Dhinakaran on AIADMK's Edappadi K. Palaniswami. Dhinakaran stated, 'Sorry, it's not A.I.A.D.M.K. now, it is only E.D.M.K. Edapadi, D.M.K. only, because he has completely went against MGR's basic fundamental bylaws'. The bulletin also details the abetment of suicide case filed against Ola Electric CEO Bhavish Aggarwal following an employee's death. Other major stories include Biocon Chief Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw's criticism of Bengaluru's civic infrastructure, allegations of online harassment of women members of the TVK party by DMK supporters, and an update on the Sabarimala theft investigation in Kerala.
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00:00Vanakkam and welcome to India. Today a very special store of South South where we promise to bring the important stories from the states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
00:23And we will deliver. And for the day, me along with my colleagues Sahai Raj, Shibi Moll and Anagar Keshav have very special stories from these states. Let's go to Sahai Raj. Sahai, what do you have from Karnataka for the day?
01:05The breaking news coming in India today spoke to Bayakon chief Kiran Majundar Shah. We have raised the question that she has been continuously targeted on social media for raising civic issues in Bengaluru.
01:21Bengaluru civic mess is back in focus with Bayakon chief Kiran Majundar Shah taking a swipe at Chief Minister Siddharamaya Sarkar over garbage and potholes.
01:33We also spoke to her. We have questioned her that she has been targeted by multiple social media users, whether they are supporters of government or pro-Karna activists are targeting her, stating that she has been raising this question because she is an agent of BJP.
01:49Let us hear what she spoke to India today.
01:51Is the government assured you, ma'am, that they will address the issue? The D.K. Shukumar has assured you.
01:56If the government assured you, Ma'am, that they will address the issue that D.K.
02:05is the government assured you ma'am that they will address the issue the dk shu kumar has
02:10assured you yeah yeah can you just talk about it no i don't want to talk i don't want to
02:16yeah i mean the chaos a true bid seems to be underway
02:34as deputy chief minister dk shu kumar and shaw health talks meanwhile the city's a brand image
02:40is taking a hit with industries feeling the strain as traffic snows continue disrupt daily life and
02:48dk shu kumar who met kiran majunda shaw has assured that they will address the issue after the meeting
02:54shu kumar said on platform x that they discussed bengaluru's futures roadmap covering infrastructure
03:01roads public amenities and innovation shaping the city's growth
03:06when somebody said potholes i was talking to kiran majunda just now she's come to invite me for
03:13the fuse wedding on 9th of november so thing is when we have what she had drawn the attention is fine
03:19they've drawn the attention is fine but after when the attention is drawn and we are already given
03:24thousand crores and the work is going on and that time per frequent comments are not necessary
03:28when things are attended the you have to give some time and when we are doing it if you're not
03:35doing it is a different issue when i'm doing it then the matter ends there and she was also very
03:40nice now she had although she'd come for a nephew's wedding this one so she discussed a lot of things
03:48and she was very much proud and we are also very proud of her
03:50suspicious death of ola electric engineer has jolted the tech giant a case of abutment of suicide
04:01has been registered against ola electric ceo bavish agarwal senior officer subrata kumar das and the
04:09company following the suicide of an employee in bengaluru arvin a homoglyceian engineer at ola electric
04:17allegedly consumed poison and died on september 28th police had initially registered an unnatural death
04:24report but suspicion arose when rupees 17.46 lakh was transferred to transfer to arvin's account two days
04:33years after his death sir next next story next story
05:01this is a qcm sidra maya's a mantra of being involved in fundraising for the bihar elections
05:19by raguendra made the allocation and said that ministers are extorting money from government
05:25officials and sending to contest bihar elections bjp alleged that all ministers in karnataka are
05:32collecting money for bihar polls it has become their main business bjp has alleged that each minister has
05:40been given a target to collect the funds meanwhile congress has rubbished all the charges of bjp and
05:47called it shoot and scored scot congress did bjp to present proof of the allegations they have hurled
05:56in a stunning revelation karnataka chief minister sidra maya's
05:59economic advisor baswarraj rayredi has blown the whistle on a powerful nexus between sand mafia and state
06:24officials in a letter to cm cm rayredi alleges that this illegal network is bleeding the state of over 400
06:33crore in royalty revenue money lost to deep-rooted corruption and unchecked legal mining according to
06:42rayredi nearly 100 100 to 150 crores truckloads of sand and jelly stones are being transported illegally every
06:52single day with the racket involving over 200 individuals allegedly aided by officials from the
06:59department of mines and geology he has also recommended a task force led by the deputy commissioner to
07:08monitor and crackdown on these rampant violations
07:24that's all from karnataka let us go to my colleague pramod madho from tamil nadu will bring latest from the
07:29state
07:42it's a pleasant day in the state of tamil nadu as monsoon begins and you could see the rain behind us
07:46and this is something that the state of tamil nadu needs for drinking water purpose and such pleasant
07:52morning but we also have political storm at the same time and that is what ttv dinagaran in an exclusive
07:58interview with us spoke about edapadi k paniswamy who is the general secretary of aiadmk in fact
08:05ttv dinagaran has placed seven accusations the first one starting calling it as no longer aiadmk
08:11but edmk edapadi dmk and he says that eps is it wants to actually go ahead and finish the political
08:19career of the ttv dinagaran and open itself but ttv dinagaran also vows that he will finish
08:26edapadi k paniswamy's political career with 2026 here's what he said
08:37eps is claiming that there is so much issue with between dmk and congress
08:42as alliance parties do you agree with that there may be
08:45uh disagreements in between two parties like the ruling party congress and all but
08:55here after entering into india alliance
08:59he made us to go away from india alliance he's weakening the ally alliance yeah he doesn't want
09:11to come back to power he want to retain the party he want to defeat he want to finish me and
09:16punish alone that is his only motto in this election he doesn't want to come back to power he thinks that
09:22he will become opposition at this time surely it will not happen just to gain some clarity you were
09:29with nda and you just said that he was a person who asked eps and that time eps said that it was
09:35delhi's decision and he showed a beer kind of way to show that you had to be removed then you joined nda
09:41you were part of nda and now what is happening is that why do you think eps does not want to be there
09:47i mean you exited claiming that he should not be the cm candidate it was see he expelled us in order
09:54to compromise them or keep them in good works he has told that we don't know whether it is correct
10:01or not yeah it's true or not but he has betrayed us in order to have the power and enjoy the power
10:11so why we how can we take his words see he is telling that the bjp only protected us to
10:23to run the government for four years then what happened to him why did he run away from bjp alliance so
10:30we cannot take his words and he we will not believe him that is the his nature is like that sorry it's
10:39not a dmk now it is only edmk era party dmk only because he has completely
10:49went against mgr's basic fundamental bylaws so we cannot say it is a dmk it's only palanichami dmk
10:59yeah everybody is laughing at palanichami's activities he's not behaving like a leader of a
11:05party or a seasoned politician his behaviors are it is totally selfish and he doesn't want anybody to
11:17grow in politics and especially people who has made him as the chief minister and who helped him to
11:25continue the government he doesn't want them to exist in the politics so why surely this election he will
11:33reap the fruit in this election because for the last eight years he is ditching everybody even
11:41delhi they have ditched see in 2024 it's an very important election for the bjp
11:48at the time he ditched bjp came out now once again he came and joined the alliance
11:56do you think that in 2029 he will go with bjp surely he will not that is his nature he'll betray everybody
12:07so this time he will be taught a lesson because in 2021 we made him not not to come to power this
12:16election totally he will be defeated in politics well the next big story from the state of tamirnadu is
12:24about tamiragavich karagam's major accusation claiming they are social warrior social media
12:31warriors especially women are being targeted by dmk complaints have been raised and the top leaders of
12:37the tamiragavich karagam claim that this is what dmk does they claim that they are inserting the fascist
12:43fangs and it's a betrayal of the people a big pretty big kind of accusation from tamiragavich karagam
12:49claiming that dmk is actually targeting they are women's social media warriors and to speak more
12:55on this we have anaga keshov thank you for joining us anaga what exactly are the accusations
12:59placed by tamiragavich karagam leaders
13:06in fact you know the tvk social media wing is claiming that their women karyakarthas are being
13:11harassed online by the supporters of dmk uh in fact there is an account that's not really
13:17verified so we don't really know if this particular account is actually uh you know belongs to a
13:23member from the dmk party or whether it's a supporter we don't really have verification on
13:27that but when we dug deep into who this particular account was it did look like a dmk supporter because
13:33the bio reads ravidian stock and a lot of past posts about our dmk's leaders have been made so
13:39essentially it is an account that is a supporter of dmk that has been cyber bullying a woman supporter a
13:46woman member of tvk party in fact this particular woman named priya suresh has also alleged that
13:52her daughter's picture were also being used by this particular account morphed threatened and uh and
13:58also it went viral in fact one of those pictures that was allegedly morphed of hers went up to 139
14:06uh k likes that's the number that we are talking about the lady alleges that these are morphed
14:11photographs that's you know that's being misused by the supporters of dmk wing she is in fact
14:16mailed to tamirnadu police uh and the chief minister of tamirnadu seeking their intervention
14:21she says that her mental health has been uh you know heavily disturbed at the moment the fact that
14:27her daughter's images were being misused by the support of dmk and used online she also says that
14:32her photos were also being morphed and a lot of cyber bullying that she has been subjected to
14:37in the last many many weeks and that's why she has now sought the urgent intervention of tamirnadu
14:42police and the chief minister of tamirnadu uh in fact she has also sought to identify uh the identity
14:49of those who run this particular uh social media channel it does look like a fake account although
14:54it is disguised as a woman but the police are yet to really ascertain who is behind this particular
14:59account that has been bullying uh the woman uh karekartas who belong to tmk so at the moment she has now
15:06sought for uh police action to identify who this particular account is run by number one number two
15:12register and fir against this particular handle and number three ensure that no picture of hers is
15:17now being misused by this particular social media account that has been bullying women numbers of tvk
15:24party and that's why tvk has taken to social media questioning dmk and has sought the urgent
15:30intervention of chief minister to prevent such online harassment against women
15:35well pretty serious allegations over there anaga but has tamiragavetri karagam in any way extended
15:43their support to uh such kind of issues
15:51well in fact uh tamiragavetri karagam has taken to twitter demanding swift action by the chief minister
15:57of tamirnadu in fact the tamiragavetri karagam has also says that uh dmk is the party that has constantly
16:04been disrespecting women and it has now come to open out in the open is what tamiragavetri karagam
16:10says it's a pretty long post where the tamiragavetri karagam has outright hit out uh at dmk by saying
16:16that if this is the way that you are going to be treating the woman of tamirnadu then the very
16:21woman of tamirnadu will teach you a lesson in the upcoming assembly elections they will vote you out
16:26is what tvk's vijay has essentially tweeted uh hitting out at dmk for the way in which this particular
16:32lady who belongs to tvk priya suresh who is a mother uh she says that her child's pictures
16:38were also being taken uh from her social media accounts that she had posted in the past and
16:44and then being morphed her photos being morphed and it still continues so brazenly and that's
16:49why she has now sought the urgent intervention of tamirnadu police and tvk has also massively hit
16:54out at dmk by saying if you know you know by saying if this is the way that you and your supporters
16:59are going to be treating the woman of tamirnadu then they will vote you out in 2026 is what tvk says
17:09these are serious allegations and definitely law should take its course on it and identify who
17:13are behind this kind of activities thank you so much anaga for joining us and for more stories
17:18from the beautiful state of kerala let's go to shippy mall
17:39thank you promote well we are breaking news coming in uh from the shamarimala incident
17:44uh another person who was under the scrutiny of the sit was questioned in the shabarimala theft case
17:50now this is ananda subramaniam who's a friend of undikrishnam booty the main accused in both the
17:54cases registered in connection with the shabarimala theft case he's also a sponsor at shabarimala he
18:00was questioned by the sit at the crime branch office here in state capitol tiru and there for around eight
18:05hours uh no arrest was recorded as he's not gone into hiding uh he's still very much visible before
18:11the sit and that's the reason why the arrest was not recorded he has been directed by the
18:15sit to appear before the team whenever they summon him for questioning uh what we're understanding is
18:21that he was the one who took these gold cladded copper plates of dwarapalaga idols from shabarimala
18:26to various states uh and he has also donated a lot of money to shabarimala on the guidelines of
18:31undikrishnam booty but reportedly he has given a statement to the sit that he was not involved in
18:36anything related to death to this death it was all following the directions of undikrishnam booty
18:41he was not directly involved but whenever undikrishnam booty asked him to take the i do
18:45take the gold cladder copper plates of these idols to whichever locations he has done that
18:49he's also donated a lot of money to shabarimala on the directions of undikrishnam booty but no
18:55involvement is what he is saying uh but we're understanding that he will be summoned again
18:59for question because they have to verify the statements that he has given to the sit today and
19:03based on that he will be summoned again is what we're understanding uh in another development the
19:08sit has submitted first progress report in terms of investigation uh to the kerala high court before
19:13the kerala high court today the sit is sp shashidharan as well as the travel code vigilance uh sp sunukumar
19:19both of them appeared before the before the kerala high court is submitted the progress uh report of
19:24the investigation in a sealed cover remember the court proceedings took place inside inside closed doors
19:30so there was no major information that's coming out but what we're understanding is that uh the case has been
19:35enforced a case will be considered again on november 15th is what we're understanding and also the
19:40kerala high court asked like you know why there's no more arrests recorded or why there's no more
19:45investigation uh you know uh investigation spreading to more and more people more accused in the case
19:51remember the devasambude officials who were associated with chamarimala back in 2019 are all accused in
19:56the case so the kerala high court reportedly asked the sit why it's just surrounding the main accused
20:01unikrishnam 40 why are these travel code devasambude officials not summoned and questioned is what
20:06the high court asked is what we are understanding they passed an interim order which we are awaiting
20:11hopefully in the coming few hours we'll get to know what exactly happened inside the court uh the
20:16remember the kerala high court directed the sit to submit a report within six weeks time full
20:20investigative report within six weeks times and every two weeks they have to support submit a
20:25progress report as of now what we know is the main accused unikrishnam 40 has been arrested
20:31uh the in the remand report the sit has submitted that uh there are many in officials of travel
20:36code there was some more involved in it and what about nikrishnam 40 done what was with the cooperation
20:41from these officials so there's naturally a lot of questions being raised to the authenticity of the
20:46and the working style of these travel code there was some board officials and also the state government
20:51because travel code they were support comes under the state government's directions also so uh tough
20:56time ahead for the state government also considering that in the coming days with more and more
21:00investigative updates coming in the state government and the travel code they were some
21:04would will have a lot of questions to answer well that's all we have from the kerala segment over
21:08to my colleague promote mother
21:16well thank you so much to be more sagar raj and anaga kesho for bringing the most important
21:20stories from the states of tamirnadu kerala karnataka and telangana and that's it for the day
21:26thank you for watching so south keep watching it