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Tensions escalated ahead of the upcoming by-polls in Tamil Nadu as AIADMK cadres staged a sit-in outside the Dharapuram police station following the detention of their rural district secretary, Selvakumar. Party workers and former legislators gathered at the site, raising slogans and alleging that the police were acting in favour of the ruling TVK. The detained leaders were reportedly released after nearly five hours, following which the gathering dispersed. Concurrently, a fierce war of words erupted between the DMK and TVK over campaign remarks made by DMK chief MK Stalin against TVK candidate Sathya Bama. Chief Minister Vijay condemned the comments, accusing the DMK leadership of resorting to indecent language and personal mockery during election rallies. TVK lodged an official complaint with the Election Commission alleging a violation of the model code of conduct, while the DMK defended the statements as political commentary regarding shifting party allegiances.

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00:00Now breaking news coming in, there's been another personal attack against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Vijay.
00:05AIADMK carders raise slogans against CM Vijay.
00:09These are slogans demeaning CM Vijay during protest.
00:13AIADMK carders chant, you are afraid, Trisha's husband.
00:17AIADMK carders, gherao, Dharampur Police Station.
00:20And then they raise these slogans.
00:22AIADMK leaders staged a sit-in raising slogans against cops.
00:26Former ministers MLA have joined the AIADMK stir at police station.
00:31AIADMK alleges police acting in favour of TVK.
00:35Claims that it is Dharampur District Secretary which has been detained.
00:39AIADMK saying that our leaders have been detained without reason.
00:44Tension is escalating as AIADMK carders surround police station and leaders have left after around five hours of detention.
00:51So this is what we're seeing in AIADMK vs TVK.
00:55A new escalation where now we're seeing that AIADMK is making personal remarks against Tamil Nadu CM after which some
01:01detention also took place.
01:03For more on that, we have Pramod Madham joining in.
01:06Pramod, tell us what really is happening when we look at AIADMK vs TVK.
01:10Now some personal remarks were given against TVK Chief Minister Vijay after which even detention happened of some AIADMK leaders.
01:20Well, Jessica, this is the last day for the campaign in Dharampuram and Madharadakam constituencies which are going to face
01:27the five bite balls on 6th of October.
01:29And like there have been like continuous kind of campaigns by the TVK, AIADMK and DMK leaders.
01:35MK Stalin was there, Odin Stalin was there.
01:37Now, Edapadikeya Parishwamy and other leaders from AIADMK is also present over there.
01:40And during such a kind of incident, what happened is that Selva Kumran, who is the actual Dharampuram Rural District
01:45Secretary,
01:45and one more important town secretary were apparently detained by the police.
01:49This led to a kind of a major chaos with AIADMK leaders gathering outside the police station and questioning like
01:56why they were detained.
01:57And they called it a kind of like high-handed, nice and mighty TVK government.
02:00However, the situation went out of hand while a set of AIADMK leaders over there started like chanting,
02:07which means like, are you afraid? Are you afraid? Husband of Trisha? Are you afraid?
02:11This was absolutely unnecessary because it's a political issue and quite a lot of things were happening.
02:15But the crowd that gathered over there started chanting like this, causing huge chaos.
02:19And post five hours of Selva Kumran being detained reportedly, he was let go and the crowd dispersed from that,
02:25Jessica.
02:26Right. Stay with us as we also show you these slogans which were being, you know,
02:32started outside the Dharampur district police station. Listen into what exactly happened there.
03:20Pramol Madhu, we've been hearing these slogans which were being raised and you mentioned, you translated it for us saying
03:26that they were calling him Trisha's husband and this is not the first time that CM Vijay has been associated
03:33with Trisha despite him denying these allegations.
03:36So, and last time we saw DMK, leader of opposition also putting him in the same sort of circumstances and
03:43this time now AIA DMK is doing the same thing.
03:46So, unfortunately, it is sure, Jessica. The important aspect over here is that this is a bifal for two constancies
03:51and there are quite a lot of things that could actually be discussed, be it kind of like 150 days
03:56of TVK rule, any kind of issues.
03:57They have like quite a lot, like I said, about the, you know, governance that could actually be brought to
04:02the people and such.
04:03But for detention of AIA DMK, office bearers and, you know, that completely turning out to be such an issue,
04:08this is definitely, you know, we can certainly say things are going out of hand, you know, fortunately, for just
04:13two boy balls for the, in the state of Tamil Nadu right now, Jessica.
04:16Right, absolutely. Well, Pramod, stay back with us as we have more news coming in. But let's shift focus and
04:22look at what is also happening in the Dharapuram bi-poll.
04:27At the Dharapuram bi-poll, battle is now leaving a bitter taste in the mouth after a massive war of
04:33words has broken about between DMK and TVK following Stalin's shocking body shaming of the TVK candidate Satya Bama.
04:40CM Vijay slammed the DMK chief, accusing him of mocking a woman using indecent language and of deriving perverse pleasure
04:49from the mockery, saying that Stalin has created a culture of obscenity.
04:52Meanwhile, Satya Bama said the remarks had left her personally distressed.
04:57TVK has now taken the matter to the election commission, alleging that Stalin crossed the line during campaigning.
05:02The controversy has also drawn criticism from DMK allies CPM, which called the remarks a form of character assassination and
05:10said they were not befitting Stalin's stature.
05:12But the DMK has rejected the allegations, saying Stalin's remarks were about Satya Bama's political switches and were being twisted.
05:28Satya Bama said it.
05:35Where does he come from?
05:40Do you see him?
05:43How are you?
05:45A young man.
05:46He uses a human being.
05:51This is an important issue.
05:54This is a human being.
05:58How do you see him?
06:16Our leader Mr. Honorable CM Mr. Vijay contempt yesterday Mr. M. K. Stalin campaign, last you can see after the
06:28election,
06:28in 2016 Mr. Udayinidi campaigns always attacked women, women-based words, vulgar words actually.
06:40So right now the father, the DMK Stalin yesterday, he attacked our candidate Satyapamma Madam to give a campaign body
06:53shaming, character assassinations.
06:55It's against election model code, that's why we gave a complaint against David Munayatakalagam, Mr. M. K. Stalin.
07:03Definitely the election commission will take action.
07:05He will not normally do that. He might have talked about shifting allegiance in politics.
07:16It is not anything connected to physical appearance. He might have said that you have shifted to some other parties.
07:30That is a general comment everybody makes.
07:35Now let me bring back in Pramod Madhav who's been following and tracking the story for us.
07:40Pramod, we heard the remarks from Stalin also and it's really distasteful for a leader of that stature to make
07:46these remarks.
07:47In fact, CPM as an ally of DMK are also disassociating themselves and we've also heard Satyapamma saying it's not
07:54really dignified for him to be making such remarks.
07:57Take us through this controversy.
07:59Well, quite a lot of things was spoken by the former chief minister, DMK president, M. K. Stalin, Dharapuram, Jessica.
08:04And at one point he even started calling the chief minister as bro, CM bro, CM sir and things like
08:10that.
08:10But at a certain point, what happened is that he wanted to highlight that this particular kind of election is
08:16being imposed upon the people of Dharapuram and also Madhavandakam considering the AIDMK, MLAs who won, decided to quit immediately
08:25and join TVK, calling it as kind of MLAs being purchased by TVK.
08:29Unfortunately, while trying to highlight this particular situation, what the former chief minister did is that he said that Satyapamma
08:35is also being called as Pettibamma, which means suitcase Bama, because he alleges that she got quite a lot of
08:41costs of money to actually join TVK after resigning from AIDMK and the MLA Post.
08:46But then he also said that there is also another name for her, which is Balatibamma, which is somersault or
08:51like making a kind of somersault.
08:53And then he went ahead and said that I don't know how she could do a somersault with that kind
08:58of a body.
08:59So that is what has turned out to be a huge controversy.
09:01DMK claims that it was a kind of a mention where he wants to talk about Satyapamma actually quitting one
09:06party and jumping to another.
09:08It's kind of like a somersault.
09:09But very clearly TVK has taken up this issue stating that you cannot body shame anybody for any instance.
09:15And that's the reason they have filed a complaint right now, Jessica.
09:18Absolutely.
09:18So now we're seeing that this row is now escalating right before the Tamil Nadu bipoles, where especially we have
09:23seen that these are two AIA DMK candidates which have also shifted parties and come to TVK.
09:29So naturally the bipoles are also heating up.
09:32And because of all of that, we're also seeing these war awards playing out.
09:36Thank you so much for joining in with those inputs, Pramod.

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