00:00Shifting focus down south now to Tamil Nadu.
00:04This is the Deepam Rao that we are speaking of.
00:07It's a big war of words that's been underway.
00:09Annamalai now comes out to slam Vijay government for anti-god stance.
00:14Annamalai says and I caught TVK trends, DMK's anti-god path.
00:19Vijay government opposes the Deepam expansion plea.
00:22An Annamalai's big Etsy order undermined charge now surfaces.
00:27That is what at least he has come out to say at a public event that he was addressing.
00:31Devotees' rights cannot be held hostage.
00:34It's almost on the lines of what the BJP had earlier come out to say.
00:37That Hindus are being denied of their right to practice their faith as they want to.
00:43Annamalai warns the TVK and says do not disturb communal harmony in Tamil Nadu.
00:47Says respect the high court order, light the Kartigai lamp now.
00:52He says politics must not dim the Kartigai Deepam.
00:55The high court, remember, allowed the Deepam on the ancient pillar itself.
00:59And the plea later on said hand over the sacred hillside to the Archaeological Survey of India.
01:05Vijay government, however, says cannot change the Deepam tradition.
01:09Vijay government in the Supreme Court also.
01:12In fact, the case was taken up to the Supreme Court where the order came up as well.
01:17Vijay government had to say they cannot give the shrine to the Archaeological Survey of India.
01:21So this is the very Rao that we are looking at that's yet again resurfaced in Tamil Nadu.
01:27This is not a new debate per se viewers.
01:30This was in fact a debate that had come to light last year as well about lighting of the Kartigai
01:38Deepam.
01:39This time, the plea is a little different.
01:42It's a plea that also speaks of the expansion of the entire event itself.
01:49And in a way, the handing over of the very hill, the Tirupara Kundram hill that is, to the ASI.
01:58But that is not something the Vijay government is willing to do.
