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As Kerala gears up for assembly elections, India Today's Shibimol KG tracked the pulse of the voters in Wayanad.
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00:25Teyim is a ritualistic dance form which generally happens in
00:29this northern part of Kerala so generally this happens in Karnur, Kassar Kod, Vainar and Calicut region
00:46this kind of performance happens in typically in this kind of temples which
00:49are known as Tava so in my background you can see one of the Tava
01:01during the Teyim it's a festival for the entire community all together so people
01:06from different regions around this place gathers together
01:12every Teyim has certain stories also associated with it so with this particular form of Teyim Kerala
01:22is considered to be a very ordinary person like a person like us who turned out to be a god
01:31so the story happened in a particular place which is in Vainar called Poon Gopam
01:38so there was one lady her name was Chakki Amma so she gets a child
01:44while he was growing up he was very good with you know like farming and all
01:51so Kerala also has a habit like he drinks while he was going on the way to Vainar he was
02:00consuming alcohol
02:01so she wants him to make that land suitable for farming
02:11you can see like they actually split the charcoal into four quadrants which actually represents those four mountains
02:22after consuming alcohol he started you know like burning the forest and he likes he was just jumping in and
02:30around
02:37so in the ritual also you can see that happening here
02:47at one point of time he just realizes that there is no way that he can escape the fire
03:08so he just climbed into that tree and out of the gooseberry tree there was like two snakes so you
03:18can see in Kerala's chest there are two snakes
03:22so it represents like he got bitten by those two snakes and he just you know like fell into that
03:28ashes
03:32so they were saying like they were taken by the fish and then they really wanted to give up and
03:40move them into the fish
03:41so I believe in Kerala's chest see that he was born with her
03:42the fish being esempio of Vainarukol an arn raglan
03:47the fish being poured into that fish being followed in Kerala's chest
03:52I was born with Vainarukol an arn
03:59So the moral of the story is that the fire that took the Kaelan's life reminded us
04:09that we should treat the nature with humility.
04:41So we bring you our second episode from Vyanad which is one of the most beautiful destinations
04:46in the state of Kerala.
04:47Vyanad as we know made a name of its own in the political map of India with the Gandhi
04:52siblings deciding to contest from here in 2019 and 2024.
04:56But that's not just about it.
04:58From the man-animal conflict to the tribal population that live here to the tea and coffee estate
05:03workers to the victims of the landslide disaster, there's much more to this Vyanad story.
05:48Thank you very much.
05:54In the past two votes by 2000 majority, we lost the Manandawadi assembly segment.
06:01In this election, definitely the UDF will win in all the three assembly segments.
06:08We will win definitely here in Vyanad.
06:11In the past two budgets, you know, I am seriously criticizing this government.
06:18No project is announced for Vyanad.
06:22In February 2021, I think, Prenivision announced that is Vyanad package of 7000 crores of rupees.
06:31But only allocation, only 50 crores per year.
06:36The central government budget, they are discarding Kerala.
06:40And in the state budget, the state government is totally discarding Vyanad also.
06:45The same process is repeating to the Vyanad also.
06:49The, all the people is very sentimental in this regard and we are approaching an assembly election.
06:58Our victory will be in total.
07:0618% of the population is from the tribal community.
07:10Their housing issue, there are lots of series of issues they are facing.
07:14None is solved yet.
07:16None is solved yet.
07:17Not a comprehensive mechanism to sort out all these issues is not at all here in Kerala.
07:24It's home to various indigenous groups, mainly the Paniyas, Kuruchyas and Adyas.
07:30We are in Vyanad in Chekadi to meet a family from the Adya community,
07:34to know about their life and also, most importantly, how they approach the elections.
07:42They are living in Kerala, a family.
07:44They are happy.
07:47They are living in Kerala.
07:49They are always happy.
07:50They have to have a baby in Kerala.
07:55All the people are born.
08:02How many people are here today?
08:05No, they don't have a job.
08:07We don't have time for them.
08:09Can you ask questions for them?
08:13Yes, they do.
08:16Can they tell you something?
08:18Are you are the people who are doing very good job?
08:21Yes, I've done.
08:23Oh, I—
08:23Hi, to some people are Welcome to our community, we didn't have any food used to enjoyour..
08:33Where can our community choose somewhere?
08:35No, we haven't been focused on information
08:39No release agreement
08:39Where should we be evalекify?
08:43Don't you go back to our employees?
08:44I want to go back to them
08:47It will feel like coming from me
09:12You know, this is one
09:19constituency that's represented by some of the biggest faces of your party
09:22since the last two turns. As the MLA of one of these main constituencies, do you feel like
09:27this was enough done to be, you know, to address these issues? What was the effort that was taken
09:31by them? We are now sentimentally connected with the Gandhi family. You know, at the time of landslide
09:38when Churalmala and Muntakai happened. At that time itself, I communicated to Rahul, this office.
09:47Immediately, the contact went on. On that day itself, he raised the issue in parliament. Repeatedly,
09:53he returned. And immediately, one day after he came here, he visited all the relief camps.
10:01He visited the hospital. He visited the place. He convened a meeting of the officials. In every
10:09cases, hazard cases, they are coming in person. They are consoling. They are doing much better.
10:16And they are keen interest in delivering the public issues and also the development issues here in
10:42Kerala woke up to one of the biggest tragedies in the history of the state.
10:46It's been close to two years and nothing has literally changed. And I have memories of everything
10:51that I saw on those days very much fresh in my mind. Today, it's more of a tourist spot with
10:58people
10:58coming in with their cameras and phones to capture the landslide site. The survivors, however,
11:03do not wish to come back as they hope to move on from the darkest chapter of their lives.
11:09And all their hope is now on the rehabilitation procedure.
11:23In a major relief, the first set of houses in the Vyanar rehabilitation package has gotten ready.
11:30And we're at an event where the Vyanar landslide victims are meeting the political leaders
11:34and also some events are arranged for them. So let's go inside and speak to them
11:37about how they feel about this, you know, the first set of houses being ready in the rehabilitation package.
12:09I am very happy.
12:11And while I grow older in North Korea, I am very happy.
12:18I waited for a few hours.
12:28It was great for myself.
12:32What was the wrong place?
12:34I was still in the hospital.
12:37But we are now at the local here.
12:38Now we are now at the local location.
12:42We are now here at the local location.
12:43We should be here after the location.
12:48I will be there now.
12:49I am the king at the university.
12:51I think I have to go back to the local high school.
12:53Here they are.
12:55I think it is a good idea, but they are not at the school.
12:55What are you doing here at the university?
12:57I think of doing this for many.
13:01I think I have to miss students too.
13:04So, I am watching several times when I was living the first.
13:07I walk around and watch it.
13:09I'm listening to the country's Moda,
13:15and my island is a large Indian girl.
13:17So, I'm so happy.
13:18One year I got to find my friends,
13:21I got to find my family.
13:25I got to find our friends and family.
13:26I got to find my family.
13:26I'm so happy.
13:28Do you want me to find your friends?
13:30I got to find our friends because I wanted to find another service.
13:33It's not easy to take care of them.
13:34We want to take care of them.
13:37If we keep doing it, we want to take care of them.
13:39What feeling?
13:40Is it a very beginning to run away?
13:44I'm not going to run away,
13:46because I'm very affected.
13:49I'm going to run away life long.
13:52I'm missing someone who's there.
13:57I'm not going to run away from my family.
14:24Recently the government handed over the houses to the victims.
14:28We saw your alliance partner, you and me are also handing over houses.
14:31It's a constituency, it's a district that's always stayed with Congress even during a left wave.
14:36So the Congress, there was a delay in Congress handing over these houses,
14:40even starting the construction, just starting the constructions right now.
14:43So how much of it is going to affect the Congress?
14:47Because we see the left gaining a lot of support and strength from people there in Vyanat,
14:52the victims especially there when we spoke to the victims there.
14:54The government took one year to arrange the land.
15:01Initially they told us that they will provide some space for making 100 houses there.
15:07But at last they denied.
15:10We tried to get another property.
15:12It took only four months.
15:14Government took one year to get the property.
15:17We took only four months.
15:18We started the construction there.
15:20It took only five months.
15:22We took all 15 to 301 people here in the house.
15:25That's it.
15:26It was almost typical.
15:28So that was the only reason the step is to be put in the house.
15:31It was in the house again.
15:33Too many times we entered the house again.
15:35There was no one step in the house.
15:36You must not have a job.
15:37There was no one step in the house.
15:37You must have to go back.
15:38So you've got to find out.
15:38You have to show me how to put the money together.
15:44All of us MPs went and met the Home Minister demanding that the disaster should be termed a national disaster.
15:52We wrote letters to the Prime Minister.
15:56We protested outside Parliament to demand justice for you and to try to do our best to support you.
16:04We saw Prime Minister visiting this district, meeting the victims, but no package or anything specific has been announced
16:10for the Vainar victims.
16:11So, here is the thing.
16:13I think you want us to compete with this type of politics which we will never do.
16:18I have told you that people have died on the basis of these people,
16:23who have been born in a way of decaying a village,
16:27not only or the United States,
16:31but also the people who have died of this is a high priority.
16:37Only at the same time, we have a key step to the Kendhra government.
16:42There is a shamelessness and there is a natural shamelessness.
16:55When was the Vainat earthquake and when are you giving a house?
16:58You are forgiving loans now? Why didn't you do it four days after the landslide? Why?
17:21The government of India operates rule of law, there is a process, there is a procedure.
17:28When you don't do audits, when you don't give end use certificates,
17:33Narendra Modi ji is not somebody who just gives announcements for the sake of announcement.
17:37Every one of our manifesto announcements, he sees as a solemn promise.
17:41When the state government is a state government that is increasingly fiscally irresponsible,
17:47every rupee that you send from Delhi to the state government, nobody knows where it is going.
17:51You look at the Tiruvannam Corporation, money is meant for SCSTs have been diverted,
17:55nobody knows where it has gone.
17:57So you can't have it where NDRF is sending money to the State Disaster Relief Fund
18:02and the State Disaster Relief Fund shows in his account hundreds of crores,
18:08but for the relief there is no money.
18:22The State Disaster Relief Fund issen.
18:26The State Disaster Relief Fund
18:44Well, Wayanad is known for its tourism, but apart from tourism, another form of revenue
18:49are the coffee and cardamom tea estates that you see across Wayanad.
18:53How good are the coffee estates doing right now in Wayanad in terms of production and
18:59sales?
19:00Coffee plantations are doing well now, because for the past two years we have been getting
19:05a good price.
19:06Though this year the prices have dipped a bit, even now the prices are good and attractive.
19:17What about the wild animal conflict?
19:19Now we do hear a lot of stories about how many plantations and many farm fields are damaged
19:25due to the entry of wild elephants.
19:27How much is that affecting the coffee estate?
19:30That is a severe loss in Wayanad, especially in the place where I have the estate.
19:37I have lost a lot of crops, other than coffee, we have got this arachnid and all, which had
19:43been totally destroyed by the elephants.
19:45And finally, since the government did not control it properly, I have to go for an electric hanging
19:53fence.
19:54fence, which is about, see I have to make a fence for about 6-7 kilometers around the
20:01estate and which is costing about 40-50 lakhs of rupees.
20:10We have met some planters and everybody, so they all raise this issue of man-animal conflict and how electric
20:16fences are not just working.
20:17In the case of man-animal conflict, here no man-animal conflict.
20:24It is only a wild animal attack.
20:26It is here.
20:26Hanging power fencing, railway crash guard fencing, wall building, trench building, it is all
20:33things is happening here.
20:34But it is not in total.
20:37It should be total.
20:39The migrants of animals is another issue.
20:42You know, the one Belur Magna, which killed Ajish there at Manantavadi, which came from
20:48Hassan, Karnadaga.
20:50The migration is always there.
20:52The wild animal attack is the brutal issue here.
20:56The farmers are suffering a lot in this issue itself.
21:00And lots of funds are spending the various compensations, the death compensation, the injury compensation,
21:09and also the farmers relief also is spending, crores of rupees is spending here.
21:36Well, it's been years since we have been reporting tragic incidents of man-animal conflict from
21:40Vayanard.
21:41Each election, every political party out there comes up with a promise that solution will
21:46be found for this problem.
21:47But what exactly is this fear?
21:48You'll know this only if we take you to a village where people actually live with this fear.
21:56So when we look back at the from around, we start to go to the village, and we look back
22:02at
22:02the village of A-Vayanan, the city, and the city.
22:05Then we try to massage the village and help it out.
22:07I've been working around the village it takes a long time and for people to see it.
22:09Yeah, hence we have got this big deal.
22:13So after the village in the village, I see that there are beautiful bunches in the village that
22:21you can see it.
22:22What is this?
22:23We have a great day.
22:26We are not going to go to the shop.
22:27We are not going to go to the shop.
22:29We can't see any of you.
22:32Are you here at the shop where we live?
22:34Yes, yes.
22:35We have to go to the shop.
22:37We have to go to the shop.
22:40It's a great day.
22:42Do you have any shop?
22:43Yes, I do.
22:45There is a shop.
22:46Do you have a shop for the shop?
22:49I don't.
22:51No, it's not a problem, but it's a problem.
22:53We're not in the morning, we don't have to go.
22:56The government will tell you about the forest department?
22:59Yes, I tell you about it.
23:00You can tell you about the forest department.
23:01You can tell you about it, but you can tell them about it.
23:04But I don't know.
23:06The forest department is in the beginning of the year.
23:08I'm telling you about it,
23:10I'm telling you about it.
23:14I don't know what it is.
23:18I don't know what to do with the forest department.
23:21If we came across the land, then the house came as well.
23:24Then we went on this lookout and all this were coming.
23:27I had a torch.
23:29Oh, I have to ask.
23:31I wanna ask.андbarnad.
23:32time. I was walking in the
23:35middle of this. I wanted to invite you
23:39to share this aí. It's ok. Here.
23:41monster.
23:42I'm going to fish.
23:42I want to fish. You
23:45know what? That's
23:49fine. I don't
23:49Well, you know.
23:51Are you there?
23:51That's right, is it?
23:54It's not…
23:54Here…
23:56Where is it?
23:56Here, there's no question…
24:00No, there's no question…
24:01No, no, there's no question…
24:04What is it?
24:04Will you come here…
24:05Do you see the candidates here?
24:09No, no, no, no…
24:11They come here…
24:12I go there and say the candidates…
24:13They come here…
24:14They come here…
24:15They come here…
24:18So, come here and go to the election.
24:20All of us, let's go to the election.
24:22We will get to it.
24:23They have to know Him.
24:25Why for it, we'll give Him a change.
24:30I have to know Him.
24:32I'm aware of them.
24:34I have to do that.
24:36We will do that.
24:38Because of the Vainada is a change.
24:40Everyone, the Vainada repo is sold to the land.
24:42It is a whole lot.
24:44But it is not that much.
25:06The frame that you see in many ways sums up the mood of Vayanard.
25:13Living through it and hoping to come out of darkness, they have seen it all, overcame
25:20it too, people with God's touch and we call this land God's own Vayanard.
25:51The frame that you see in many ways sums up the mood of Vayanard.
25:54The frame that you see in many ways sums up the mood of Vayanard.
25:56What does that mean?
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