00:00That's not all when it comes to the attacks being mounted over Chief Minister Vijay.
00:05Now it's Annamalai who's come out to hit out at Vijay over the Parandur Airport
00:09where Annamalai says and I caught TVK has pushed Chennai back 15 years.
00:15Annamalai slams Vijay for dropping the airport project which he did just a few weeks back.
00:20Chief Minister Vijay scrapped the Parandur Airport project and that in fact had invited a lot of scrutiny for that
00:26matter.
00:27Now this is the latest flashpoint that we see in the political sphere of Tamil Nadu
00:32with Annamalai coming in to amp up the attacks against Chief Minister Vijay.
00:37Let me take this to Apoorva at this given point but before that let's quickly first listen in to what
00:42Annamalai has said.
00:57And when the decision making is so slow and you don't want a second airport.
01:01Chennai has got exactly six connecting cubes that can connect to a plane.
01:05So A380 doesn't want to fly to Chennai because A380 says for me the connecting cube that has to come
01:11and connect
01:11it has to have two different connections.
01:13One for the first class, one for the deep end economy and economy.
01:16And Chennai airport is not designed to have an elevator which can connect like that.
01:20So we go to Dubai, you see two A380s taking off and landed in Bangalore.
01:25So Bangalore is able to push more number of seats as to it.
01:27So people from Chennai, they take a flight to Bangalore, they go to A380 because even a premium seat in
01:32A380
01:33is lesser by about 15,000 rupees than taking a normal premium seat in the same Emirates or Qatar from
01:38Chennai.
01:39So people think like that but the politicians don't think like that and people think ahead and politicians think 10
01:44years behind.
01:45When you say you don't want Parandur, you are pushing the state by another 15 years.
01:49Land notification will take about a year. High notification will take about two years.
01:53Land notification later one year, three years. Land acquisition will take about two and a half, three years, six years.
01:57General government notification, permission, landing, clearance, everything will take about a year and a half.
02:01Building will take about two and a half. Tomorrow morning, you find the second airport for Chennai.
02:05Tomorrow morning, you start to work. We will open that airport in 2036.
02:09By the time Kamil Madhu's CFR will have come down to 0.9, probably will be one of Vijaya's oldest
02:15states in terms of numbers and will not be going anywhere.
02:20On that note, viewers, Apoorva continues with us on the broadcast.
02:24Apoorva, this is another attack coming on against Chief Minister Vijaya as we speak.
02:29This is with regards to the Parandur project that's been cancelled and scrapped by Chief Minister Vijaya.
02:34Take us through what had happened back then with the scrapping of the project and what Annamalai is highlighting in
02:40his attacks in his address against Chief Minister Vijaya.
02:45But in fact, even when the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Joseph C. Vijaya, had gone ahead in the Tamil
02:51Nadu Assembly and announced that there will be no construction of the airport there in Parandur.
02:57And that this was to safeguard the rights of the farmers, the rights of the environmentalists in those regions who
03:03are going ahead.
03:04And talking about that, we saw a lot of backlash that the Chief Minister had received when he had announced
03:09that.
03:09And very much so because we saw the kind of work that had been put in for making of the
03:14Parandur airport there as well.
03:15And now with the Chief Minister having announced, not only is the primary opposition, the DNK going ahead and lashing
03:22out at Chief Minister Vijaya.
03:24But we also see several other parties from the opposition and including the parties in the alliance as well going
03:31ahead and questioning what is the decision of the Chief Minister as well.
03:34And very much on those lines now, you see, you know, Annamalai there, the leader of the We The People
03:41going ahead and lashing out,
03:43saying that this move by the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Joseph C. Vijaya, will push back the kind of
03:48advancement that Chennai needs and Tamil Nadu needs in terms of a second airport right from Chennai airport as well.
03:55Let me remind you, Parandur airport will be somewhere closer to the Chennai Kanshipuram belt region,
04:00which is also one of the major regions where you see the industrial part of the city being developed there
04:07as well.
04:08And which is essentially why then the DNK government had brought in Parandur as that very location where the second
04:14airport closer to Chennai will be coming up.
04:17And now with the Chief Minister announcing that there will not be any airport that will be set up in
04:22Parandur,
04:23but rather a second location that will be still identified further on and then discussed and then later on an
04:29airport to be set up.
04:30That's what Annamalai has also gone on in question.
04:33He said it's almost taken over, you know, five to six years for even identifying and getting the lands and
04:39permits for Parandur airport to be set up.
04:41And now with the Chief Minister going ahead and announcing that they will go ahead and look for new pastures,
04:46greener pastures,
04:46that this will definitely go ahead and set back the development, the kind of advancement that Chennai needs in terms
04:53of a second airport.
04:54We're seeing other states like Bengaluru, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and several others who are raising ahead in terms of secondary
05:01airports
05:02that are being built in their own cities nearby their own capital for a boost of development, a boost of
05:09infrastructure.
05:09But now you see this essentially this statement by Chief Minister, which is stalling this kind of development and infrastructure,
05:16thereby setting back the state and the capital of Chennai back by almost over a decade is what you can
05:22see Annamalai also going ahead and pointing out.
05:25Right, Aburva, thank you for bringing us all of those details into this very story.
