00:00Months ago, when the TVK came to power, Chief Minister Vijay took a decision and said that
00:06there will be no more political messaging on the walls of Chennai and across Tamil Nadu,
00:11that the poster culture, the hoarding culture that's been rampant in Tamil Nadu will come
00:16to an end.
00:17Is that really the case?
00:19Not at all.
00:20What you see on your screens is what we found when we travelled to different pockets of
00:25Chennai.
00:26And clearly, the poster culture continues unabated, irrespective of which political
00:30party, by the way.
00:31The call may have come from the TVK.
00:33There are TVK posters, hoardings on the roads, as is the case for DMK, AIA, DMK, every political
00:39party continuing with these massive hoardings across the city, which means essentially this,
00:44that while we've heard a whole lot of talk, nobody's actually walked the talk.
00:49There's been no crackdown whatsoever on the hoarding culture in Chennai, in Tamil Nadu.
00:54The Madras High Court has stepped in now against one MLA, ECR Sarvanan.
00:59Now, if you live in Chennai, you know him.
01:01He is the one who puts up the maximum hoardings in the city.
01:04And while he is now issuing appeal after appeal, saying remove these hoardings, the question
01:09is whether he'll actually ensure that his hoardings are removed first, because politicians
01:14most definitely preach, but never actually walk the talk on this issue.
01:24Banners, hoardings and posters.
01:27Five months after the Tamil Nadu government ordered a crackdown on illegal banners and posters
01:32across Chennai, the ground reality tells a different story.
01:37Chennai is yet again awash with political posters of all use, including ruling TVK.
01:44We are reporting from Mailapur, and I want to show you the number of posters, the number
01:48of banners here.
01:49Look at this huge, huge banner that's being put up here at the intersection of four roads.
01:54Imagine the life risk.
01:56If there is a pedestrian that's walking close to the banner, or if there is a two-wheeler
01:59that's going there, and if the banner is a bit loose, it's just going to collapse and
02:03fall on the person that's walking here, which is extremely, extremely dangerous.
02:08India today hit the streets for a reality check, and found that the government's order has
02:13done little to change the picture on the ground.
02:15Just look at the number of posters really been put up.
02:19First is you have VCK's chief's told Tirumavallavan's poster.
02:23Right next to that you have Rahul Gandhi Vijay's poster, Praveen Chakravarti and Vijay.
02:27And up next to that you have Sivakarthi Kane and another follower of his posters.
02:33Just look at the number of posters stuck here at the walls in Warren Road.
02:39This is exactly what public keeps pulling up and flagging.
02:43The poster Rao has also landed TVK in legal trouble.
02:47Chennai police filed an FIR over illegal holdings on November 30th, 2025, near a private marriage
02:53hall.
02:54The FIR was filed against now-TVK MLA ECR Sarvanen.
02:58He's moved to the Madras High Court to quash the FIR.
03:01But amid that, an appeal now from the MLA.
03:08The poster Banner is now-TVK.
03:24The poster Banner is now-TVK.
03:36After the backlash of a civic nuisance, Taminaru Minister Busi Anand has once again appealed to Party Carder to remove
03:42posters and banners across Chennai.
03:44But the question remains, if the order came from the government, why are these posters still on the streets?
03:50One thing is clear, poster politics has never really gone away from the spotlight in Chennai.
03:56With Anika Keshav, Bureau Report, India Today.
