00:00Tamil Nadu, Chief Minister M.K. Stalin has lost from his traditional seat the family bastion.
00:08He's lost the Kholathur seat. Massive, massive setback for the DMK in Tamil Nadu.
00:15Halapati wave crushes the DMK in the state.
00:18TVK's V.S. Babu emerges a giant slayer, beats M.K. Stalin.
00:25So, while the TVK emerges as the single largest party, it's done spectacularly well, leading in 106 seats.
00:34The AIA DMK is lagging behind at 55 in No. 3 position.
00:39DMK is at 72.
00:41But losing from Kholathur, that's a huge, huge loss for the DMK.
00:50Pramod Madhav joins us from Chennai.
00:55He's at Vijay's residence and Pramod.
00:58Massive celebrations.
01:00Everyone, I mean India today had predicted that these numbers would be absolutely spectacular for the TVK and Vijay's debut.
01:09But are they already thinking in terms of government formation with the Congress as some initially indicated?
01:19Actually, yes, Gaurav, because 108 is a very big number for any debutant who are in this Tamil Nadu politics.
01:24Because imagine the state of Tamil Nadu has been for close to 50 years being a kind of bastion for
01:29either DMK or AIA DMK.
01:31But right now, that is the TVK leader, Vijay's residence, where you could see the kind of security has been
01:35beefed off.
01:36A kind of a total metal detector for, you know, I think all this kind of security measurements have been
01:40also done over here.
01:41In fact, Trisha was here almost half an hour ago. She spent 30 minutes over here and she left.
01:45And the number till now for TVK seems to be 108, but one after the candidates, other the candidates of,
01:51you know, TVK are winning.
01:53From Tutukudi, we saw Sriram win and various other TVK candidates also winning after one another.
01:57And the important aspect here is that, like, now in Kolathur, M.K. Stalin, who has now become the former
02:02chief minister of Tamil Nadu, has been trailing since morning to V.S. Babu.
02:07That's a very, very important thing to note, actually.
02:10And now he's almost, V.S. Babu is almost 8,000 to 9,000 votes, like, leading.
02:15So, unfortunately for DMK, this is a huge disaster that M.K. Stalin is losing Kolathur and various other locations
02:21also, be it like Saithapet, where the minister was also from there.
02:25That is also massive money and he's also trailing very badly.
02:28So, one after the other, now the decisions, the victories are coming over.
02:32And for Vijay, both Perambur and Tichyish seems to be extreme lead and comfortable lead right now.
02:37So, all this is going in favor of Vijay.
02:39Just like you mentioned, the important aspect here is that, for the state of Tamil Nadu, the magic number is
02:43118.
02:44And this is where Vijay's father, that is S.H. Chandrasekharan, who went ahead and said that Congress has been,
02:50you know, declining only because it has been supporting one party after the other.
02:55But Vijay is ready to give back the power so that Congress's history will sustain.
03:00That is the kind of comment made by Vijay's father now, Gaurav.
03:04No, that's also extremely significant.
03:06But the fact that, as you pointed out, 50 years it was DMK, AIA DMK and now there's a third
03:14player.
03:14But as far as the DMK is concerned, you know, there was so much talk about eradicating the Sanatan.
03:20And suddenly, those who are talking about eradicating Sanatan are on the losing side themselves, unable to save their own
03:29seats.
03:29What is that big story that emerges from Kolathur?
03:33You know, why is it that MK Stalin, who was chief minister, is unable to save his own seat?
03:42Well, it's something that DMK have to respect it and they have to, you know, go ahead and find out
03:47what exactly happened over there.
03:49Because Kolathur, Perambur, they were all closed by constituencies and there, Vijay has shown his kind of like strength over
03:54there as he went for one kind of, you know, campaign at that spot itself.
03:58So, these are something DMK will have to definitely go ahead and think what exactly has happened.
04:02Because chief minister at that point, MK Stalin as chief minister has gone there regularly, made sure he spent time
04:07with the people over there.
04:08But even after that, if he cannot, you know, sustain a victory over there, that is something DMK will have
04:13to definitely go ahead and restore what exactly happened.
04:15Not just over there.
04:17Earlier, the trail was in such a way that close to 31 ministers were trailing back.
04:20And now, K. Nehru has won, but various other ministers are still having trouble to win in these places as
04:26well.
04:26In fact, Thutukudi, Gita Jeevan, DMK, a strong person from there, she apparently has lost to Vijay's friend Sriram, who
04:33does not have any kind of political backing, but he has, she has lost to him.
04:37So, all these are things DMK will definitely have to respect for, for them, now the number seems to be
04:4272, while TVK is at 108.
04:44And even if TVK is going to win 108, they will need another 10 plus, if 24, to be comfortable
04:50as well.
04:51So, still, the game is still being played, Gaurav.
04:54This is a very, very interesting game that is being fought.
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