00:00Okay, let's move on and get your details of what's happening in the southern states.
00:04We'll focus first on Tamil Nadu, where Chief Minister Vijay's speech yesterday
00:08created ripples in the Assembly. Today, DMK MLA is staging a protest, sat down on the floor of
00:14the Assembly and they had to be marshaled out, dragged out of the Assembly. Why were they
00:18protesting? A couple of issues. One, over a gesture that the Chief Minister made in the
00:23Assembly, where he brought his hand to his chin. Now, this, the DMK, their allies have said,
00:28was a personal attack at Stalin and that it was body shaming of the former Chief Minister.
00:35On the other front, the DMK also demanded that some of the corruption mentions
00:39that Chief Minister Vijay made be expunged to the Assembly.
00:43This is what played out. We'll take a look first at all the reactions.
00:56One gesture by Chief Minister Vijay has now created a ruckus in the Tamil Nadu Assembly.
01:06Chief Minister Vijay, while delivering a fiery speech on the Assembly floor on Monday, has not just made
01:13headlines but also been accused of body shaming former Chief Minister M.K. Stalin.
01:24While speaking about the 1976 emergency and the MISA debate, Chief Minister Vijay placed his hand on his face
01:32in a gesture that appeared to mimic someone being struck.
01:53Since then, the Assembly has been out of control.
01:57On Tuesday, the first course of action by the DMK was to demand the expunging of the remarks,
02:03calling it derogatory.
02:29But the Tamil Nadu Speaker rejected the demand after the ruckus escalated.
02:41After that, DMK MLEs were allegedly thrown out of the Assembly.
02:46The DMK called the Speaker tyrannical.
03:02Tamil Nadu Minister Nirmal Kumar defended Chief Minister Vijay and pointed out what M.K. Stalin
03:09had said about Indira Gandhi's scheme.
03:35When asked about the gesture, former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin called it
03:41Disrespectful.
03:54But it is not just the DMK.
03:57Even Vijay's own ally, the CPIM, questioned the gesture.
04:18The gesture may be open to interpretation, but its political impact is clear.
04:23With the DMK up in arms, questions are now coming, even from Vijay's own allies.
04:30Vidhapurva Jayachandran and Anagar Keshav, Bureau Report, India Today.
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