40 people died: Woman IPS officer snatches mic at Vijay rally

Watch to know how a woman IPS officer intervened and seized the microphone at TVK chief Vijay’s first rally since the Karur stampede.

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00:00Those were the sharp, restrained but unmistakably firm words of IPIS officer Isha Singh moments

00:12before she snatched the microphone from TVK leader Basi Anand after he announced that

00:16there was space and called more people inside the venue.

00:19At TVK Vijay's first public rally since the Karoor Stampede that killed 41 people, Basi

00:24Anand had just begun inviting more people into the Puducherry venue, saying,

00:28When the IPIS officer intervened, refusing to permit entry beyond the approved number,

00:38she cited the massive loss of life in Karoor and the strict restrictions imposed for public

00:43safety.

00:48The rally, held at the Upilam Expo ground in Puducherry, was organized under strict restrictions

00:52imposed by the Puducherry police.

00:54Authorities had capped crowd strength at 5,000 people, allowed entry only through QR-coded

00:59passes to avoid overcrowding, and denied permission for any roadshow.

01:03The tension on the ground was palpable.

01:05TVK cadres were seen jumping barricades to enter the venue, forcing police to tighten crowd

01:10control even further.

01:11And in a major security scare, a man carrying a gun was detained during frisking at the entry

01:16point.

01:17After 41 deaths in Karoor, Puducherry police weren't willing to gamble with even one more

01:24life.

01:25And if that meant seizing the mic, halting entry, and freezing the momentum, it sent a

01:29clear message, no political moment is worth another preventable tragedy.

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