00:00Who is this astrologer going to meet Vijay after his victory?
00:03Rathan Pandit had predicted TVK's Joseph Vijay's tsunami victory
00:06months before the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections results.
00:09Today, he is certainly one of the most talked about names in Tamil Nadu politics.
00:14Pandit, a numerologist and astrologer with over four decades of experience,
00:18claimed TVK would disrupt the decades-long dominance of the DMK and the AIA DMK in the state.
00:23Those predictions are going viral now.
00:32Born to a Christian father and a Hindu mother,
00:35Joseph Vijay has largely kept his personal beliefs private,
00:38but over the years, he has been seen visiting temples, churches
00:41and other spiritual places on multiple locations.
00:44And this moment is bigger than just one astrologer,
00:47because Tamil Nadu's politics has long had a complicated relationship with astrology.
00:51Ironically, even in a state shaped by the rationalist Dravidian movement,
00:55politicians across party lines have often been linked to astrologers,
00:59numerologists, temple rituals and auspicious timings during elections.
01:03Late former Chief Minister J.J. Alarita was widely reported
01:06to have regularly consulted astrologers before major political decisions.
01:10Reports even claimed astrologer Parapanagadi,
01:13Unnikrishnapanikar, had predicted her dramatic 2001 comeback victory,
01:17when many believed it was impossible.
01:19Even during the 2026 elections, reports described candidates performing rituals,
01:24consulting numerologists and timing campaign events around astrological advice.
01:29Another astrologer, Shailvi Kadamotran, had also publicly predicted that Vijay was entering
01:33a decisive political phase and could emerge as a major force in Tamil Nadu.
01:37And that's what makes this moment culturally fascinating.
01:40Because in Tamil Nadu, elections are rarely just about politics.
01:44They are often a mix of cinema, symbolism, personality cults, spirituality, mass emotion
01:49and sometimes astrology too.
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