00:13We are reporting from the AIA DMK's campaign here in Royapuram and the energy has reached fever pitch.
00:26The battle here is between AIA DMK's D. Jai Kumar who enjoys a lot of personal popularity.
00:33Squaring off against him is the debut candidate from DMK, Subair Khan who is the son of former minister Rehman
00:40Khan.
00:40In fact, last time in the year 2021, D. Jai Kumar despite being so popular had lost in Royapuram which
00:47is actually his bastion.
00:49He has been an MLA from here since the year 1991 and has not shifted constituencies.
00:54So come with me as I take you to explore the streets and corners of Royapuram, speak to all those
01:00candidates and really truly find out what the people of Royapuram really want.
01:21Now when you are so loyal to Royapuram and you are such a popular face, last time what happened sir?
01:26Why the defeat?
01:26Actually some, what are the election promises that have been announced by the Stalin, that to DMK, election manifesto, thousand
01:40rupees.
01:41It has reached. So all two crores assured that as soon as when we assume the office, that is chief
01:56minister post, immediately we will be giving a thousand rupees to two crores family.
02:01But instead of that one crores family, that too, before the 24th parliament election, fourth coming, you know, that time
02:09only gave.
02:10So what the people know, thousand rupees we will get. So false promises.
02:25So what theoz gives us the answer for that one next day.
02:27You know, from the two 30th Bora Bora immigrants, the court,
02:36Yes, you know, you can apply to the street road.
02:39There is a way to work, the street road.
02:41There's a way to work.
02:41There is a way to work, there is a way to work.
02:42The street road can be a way to work.
02:45If you come to work, who can come here?
02:48You can say, if you come to work, there's a way to work.
02:53They can do it.
02:54We can do it.
02:56We can do it.
02:58We can do it.
03:01We can do it.
03:03The guy's workplace is created with him, when the guy once got married, in the car, he was living in
03:10a race.
03:11How did you get postal and wipe a game?
03:13He's killing the guy, but he's the best.
03:17He's killing the guy.
03:23Who's a politician?
03:25We were usually DJing by the cops.
03:28What was the last time he was so good?
03:29How are you doing this?
03:30I would say that I would have done this.
03:33I would have done it.
03:34I would have done it.
03:36I would have done it.
03:37I would have done it.
03:48And from the ADM case campaign, we have now come to the DM case campaign in Royaburam
03:53where Mr. Subair Khan, who is the son of ex-minister Rehman Khan is contesting.
03:58And the biggest weakness for the DMK in this constituency is the fact that the incumbent
04:03MLA, iDreams, did not really connect well with the ground people of Royaburam.
04:09And that's why the DMK has also changed its candidate and made Subair Khan contest from
04:14here.
04:14But another strong factor for the DMK is the strength of the minority vote bank which constitutes
04:22to about 40,000 voters.
04:24So that is the biggest challenge for Jai Kumar who enjoys a huge popularity, a huge clout
04:30among the people of Royaburam.
04:40Royaburam has about 40,000 minority voters.
04:43How are you reading their minds?
04:45See, already the minorities, the BJP allied ADMK is, it's not been a good supporter for
04:55the minorities.
04:56You know, like a lot of things, they are going against the minority people.
04:59And we all know well.
05:00And Mr. Jai Kumar, the former minister himself has accepted that he lost elections because
05:05he has been in alliance with the BJP last elections in 2021.
05:09Battleground Royaburam is driven between the personality driven AIA DMK strongman Jai Kumar
05:15squaring off against DMK and its welfare schemes.
05:20In fact, Jai Kumar has been a strong man in this constituency since the year 1991.
05:24But he lost last time and he says that he lost because of DMK's welfare policy, particularly
05:31the thousand rupees scheme for women.
05:33But this time around, it looks like a lot for the AIA DMK really hinges on the crucial
05:3940,000 Muslim vote bank who had en masse voted to the DMK last time around.
05:44Plus that chunk of votes that got transferred to DMK from the AIA DMK in the year 2021.
05:50So it's going to be a very tough two-cornered fight here in Royaburam between Jai Kumar versus
05:57the DMK.
05:59With camera person Daniel Anaga Keshiv reporting for India Today from Royaburam.
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