This news report highlights the escalating controversy in Tamil Nadu regarding the Tiruparankundram Deepam issue. The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) is reportedly gathering signatures from Members of Parliament to initiate an impeachment motion against Justice G.R. Swaminathan. The move follows the judge's order to light a Deepam near a Dargah, which the government refused to implement. The report also details protests by the Federation of Lawyers Organization for Democracy and Secularism outside the Madras High Court. Additionally, it references the Chief Minister's dismissal of the issue as polarizing politics.
00:00And the Tamil Nadu Deepam controversy continues with DMK now declaring war on the verdict judge G.R. Swaminathan.
00:08Sources reveal that DMK now is pushing for impeachment.
00:13Reportedly, DMK started getting signatures from members of parliament to push for an impeachment motion against the judge.
00:21Remember, it was Justice Swaminathan who said that the Deepam close to the Darga in Tiruparang Kundram should be lit.
00:27That wasn't followed. At no point did the government give in.
00:31They refused to follow that particular order and now they want to follow it up also with this particular move of an impeachment motion.
00:39Meanwhile, you're also seeing protests breaking out.
00:42A group of advocates held a protest outside the Madras High Court against the judge here.
00:48Members of the Federation of Lawyers Organization for Democracy and Secularism held this protest against the judge,
00:53seeking his impeachment pressure, clearly piling, seeking for action against the judge here.
01:00I want you to listen in to exactly what Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin said on this entire issue,
01:06blaming the opposition, saying that this was a result of polarizing politics.
01:10The President of the Federation of Lawyers Organization for Democracy and Secularism
01:40That is the message from the Tamil Nadu chief minister who maintains at this point that all of this is an unwanted controversy triggered by some.
02:02Pramod Madhav is joining us live from Chennai with more details on the story.
02:06Pramod, what are you picking up from your sources?
02:08You know, the DMK, we understand, is pushing for an impeachment motion.
02:12How do they plan on going about this?
02:18Well, Akshita, one thing is very certain.
02:19We were there at Tirupirgum in Dental Hills when this particular issue occurred.
02:22And we very clearly saw how the police were not ready to allow any kind of protester to climb up the hill or to, like, you know, the petitioner also to go ahead and light the lamp.
02:30Not just for one day, but it occurred for two days and only after which an appeal was filed with the Supreme Court.
02:35And now the chief minister, who was in Madriyat, also very clearly called this as nothing but a kind of, like, dirty politics, cheap politics.
02:42And this is what is expected to resonate in the parliament as well.
02:46As our sources claim that the DMK MPs are going ahead with a plan to bring in an impeachment motion and for which they're also collecting signatures as we speak, Akshita.
02:55All right.
02:56Pramod, thanks very much for joining us with those details.
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