00:00How do you look at the recent statements by the DMK leaders, particularly body shaming women?
00:05Even you have also undergone such kind of targeting recently by MK Stalin.
00:11So how are you looking at this kind of women in particular targeted for their body?
00:30How do you look at this kind of women in particular?
00:36Because of this kind of women in particular, women in particular, women in particular.
00:42If you look at this Tamil Nadu, you can see that there is no support for the Tamil Nadu.
00:51There is no support for the Tamil Nadu.
00:58There is no support for the Tamil Nadu.
01:11There is no support for the Tamil Nadu.
01:24So the DMK Chief and former Chief Minister MK Stalin made controversial remarks targeting the TVK candidate Satya Bama,
01:32referring to nicknames including Suitcase Bama and Somersault Bama
01:35and questioning her ability to do a Somersault, which is now being seen as a body-shaming remark.
01:42And the TVK leaders have hit back calling Stalin's remarks a new low in political discourse
01:47and also accusing him of mocking Satya Bama's appearance.
01:50They say the comments are about a woman's dignity and accused the DMK of desperation,
01:55saying that people of Dharapuram are watching.
01:59In fact, the TVK candidate Satya Bama also spoke exclusively with India Today
02:05on this remark made by MK Stalin in which she clearly said that the people will teach DMK a lesson
02:11over this remark.
02:18MK Stalin's body-shaming remark on the TVK candidate Satya Bama.
02:22Now, Satya Bama has broken silence.
02:24She has said that DMK has never given importance to women and vulgar language was used against her.
02:29And she has also said that people won't accept these obscene statements and people will teach DMK a lesson.
02:37She also added that TVK won because of big women's support and women are watching and they will not support
02:43DMK,
02:44especially after these remarks which were made by the DMK chief MK Stalin himself.
02:50So, DMK chief MK Stalin made controversial remarks targeting TVK's Dharapuram by Paul candidate Satya Bama,
02:57referring to nicknames including Suitcase Bama and Somersault Bama and questioning her ability to do a somersault.
03:03Listen in.
03:24Maka Keshav is now joining us on this story.
03:27Anagha, ahead of the bi-polls in Tamil Nadu, there's a new low that we are witnessing in Tamil Nadu
03:32politics yet again.
03:33We've seen how in the past few months there have been repeated personal attacks and personal jives that have been
03:39made by several leaders irrespective of the parties.
03:41And there's a fresh one that has been made by none other than the DMK chief and former chief minister
03:46against a woman candidate from the TVK.
03:51That's right. In fact, DMK leaders have consistently been making personal attacks against men and women alike and now the
03:58fact that it has come from the party president,
04:00Mr. MK Stalin itself is quite shocking. So, therefore, it has received widespread backlash.
04:06Many, many, many, many TVK leaders and other people as well, they've all responded negatively towards Stalin's comment, questioning the
04:14kind of body shaming that we're witnessing at the moment.
04:16I also heard a word personally with the TVK's candidate Satya Bama who has been body shamed and she says
04:22that she's been very disturbed ever since she saw that video.
04:25You know, that particular speech. And she also says that in the last many, many weeks she has been subjected
04:30to, you know, subjected to a lot of mental harassment, social media trolling and harassment and now this body shaming
04:36was the last thing that she really wanted.
04:38She says that, she also says that many leaders in DMK have consistently been shaming women, speaking vulgarly against women
04:46and that's the reason why they even, you know, why they've lost this assembly election.
04:50And the same thing is going to repeat in Bipole is what Satya Bama says. But the fact that this
04:54kind of statement is coming from a former chief minister, up until now, Stalin has, it's been very few times
05:01that Stalin has really made personal remarks against someone.
05:04But this kind of comment coming from Stalin has been really shocking and disappointing to many, many women, especially.
05:10Absolutely, Anaka. Thank you so much for joining us with those details and for that context.
05:15So a fresh controversy has now erupted ahead of the Bipole, the Dharapuram Bipole in Tamil Nadu after DMK chief
05:22M.K. Stalin body shamed a TVK candidate, a female TVK candidate who has now hit back,
05:29saying that the people won't accept such obscene statements and will teach DMK a lesson.
