Could DMK's Dayanidhi Maran's Remarks Be A Game Changer Ahead Of Elections 2024 | India Today

could daan nidi marah's comment be something of a game changer could it change something on the ground could it amplify the effect uh that the BJP is hoping it will be ahead of Elections just 9 days from now uh in Tamil Nadu let's go across and see what experts think remember the BJP is fighting an ambitious uphill battle to make a mark forget about winning or losing it's about making a mark making some kind of a dent in Tamil Nadu whether it is in vote share or a small couple of seats who knows we'll only know on June the 4th but today's comment by Dian nidi Maran has set the agenda he's given many interviews but the interview to India today is what the Prime Minister invoked and now it has blown up into a full Crossfire between the BJP in the DMK welcoming on to the news track rajat Siti political commentator and analyst Naran tirupati is State vice president of the BJP in Tamil Nadu C Raj shran is Advocate and founder of voice of Tamil Nadu and TS sudhir is our resident political analyst welcome gentlemen thank you all of you for being with me sudhir quickly coming to you first on this you know we've seen how words of contempt and arrogance in the past uh not very distant past uh you know have had a strategic kind of political effect you know far beyond just the cheekiness of the moment uh you know we've seen it we've seen how well the BJP has milked that kind of thing in the past of course Tamil Nadu is a very very different kettle of fish uh you know the political dynamics of Tamil are not comparable with other places where the BJP has found benefit from taking contemptuous comments and converting them into Political Capital but what do you think about this comment will it have some kind of effect can the BJP you know really really milk it this election well uh will this be the Manish Shankar AER M for the DMK well I don't think so given the kind of image that anamal has projected for himself in the runup to 2024 now he's known as the singam officer now for a singam officer to play victim in this way I'm not very sure whether it will really find traction with a large section of the population especially his admirers who see him as someone to emulate as someone who is a very fiery courageous dares to take on his detractors in that way for him to continuously say that oh they called me by this name may not really work and in the ecosystem of Tamil Nadu politics we have seen that name calling is pretty much part for the course uh we have been seeing DMK referring to him has an order which refers to a goat uh we had senior leaders of the DMK saying that on the 4th of June uh we will have mutton Biryani again a J at Anam Malay anamal himself used not very parliamentary not very nice language for Kamal Hassan just the other day saying that he needs to get his brain checked so in that sense in the Heat and dust of the elections this has been the kind of language which is rather unfortunate but whether this will really find uh I mean this will be the issue on which the voters will vote beat in Chennai or other parts of Nadu including katur I'm not so sure Mr Rajan good to see you back on the show what did you think about this remark you know sudhir is right when he says that name calling is not such an unusual thing in on the political battlefield of Tamil Nadu uh you know anamal himself in reaction to this comment has been quite combative and said that Maran is nothing without his surname DMK is full of Filth etc etc he can't play victim but the prime minister has projected this as a you know an unacceptable attack on an IPS officer rightous citizen of Tamil Nadu what do you think uh shev I totally agree with TS sud and this name calling uh political uh strategy I would call was created or was invented by BJP first they called Rahul Gandhi a Papu and they made it viral all over and made him Papu which he is not also both sides Pro to be no no I'll tell you and again coming to Tamil Nadu anamay who was an SP rank officer resigned and came and joined BJP he was made the president all fine that is their internal party matter but here fact of the matter is anal has called The Press media people all 100 rupees 200 rupes W 500 R you take th000 rupees and you you come and ask questions he has made humpy number of uh name call towards press people senior journalist politicians not only DMK whoever disagrees with his point he would say he is an unfit fellow for example rightly pointed out he made couple of days he called [Music] go he should be treated for he made some very nasty comment against Kamal of course I have a different not cross that lakman Raa of even talking against somebody because I I'm always spoken against the limits that is the basic decency we maintain in the political discourse of Tamil Nadu or anywhere in the country okay but here this this kind of language was invented was manufactured was spread only by BJP but I get what you're saying but you're saying that this is also part for the course in in Tamil Nadu Mr tirupati before I go to Raj dupati you want to quickly reply to Raj he's saying who is the BJP to try and play victim over its state president being called Joker you have abused all people including anamal has abused people no no see nobody plays any victim role here as Mr sud said it is the practice of DMK and it is the tradition of DMK to abuse filthy the opposition part sud said it's the power for the course in politics not DMK of the I am telling you it is the DMK which has been accusing filthy personally against all their oppos right from Mr Kamar they called him a black crow okay Crow so they called him a black crow and they called him so many words so many filthy words and also they called MJ as a Mal so calling personally their opposition is not new whoever they feel that they are very strong they are going to oppose them and they will be a challenge then the DMK will go on attack personally I am I'm telling you that is the reason Mr anamal has been abused because they are afraid of Mr anamal because he has exposed DMK in the last 2 three years but see I cannot keep qu when they abuse my president okay so these people are villains so the villains will call you know the the honest and straightforward people as Jokers so D is known for his abusing filthy in fact he called he asked in in front of secretar before an year off that whether they are untouchable that is the same word he used so we are not bothered about how he calls us but they should understand that this arrogance will come to an end because of anomaly so this arrogant let me bring rajat in on this rajat what do you think about this comment because you know it's it's gone beyond just a small little sound bite uh you know that was in the early hours of the day kind of going viral on social media and then finally exploded from the Das where the Prime Minister was actually speaking so the BJP obviously wants to make make a big deal of it because we've seen in the past how you know arrogance and uh this kind of contempt uh you know against individuals has uh you know has benefited the BJP uh Tamil Nadu as you've heard from the experts here is a is a slightly different from everywhere else what do you think do you think it'll have some traction well um if I were to wear my strategic hat here sh in my opinion what has happened in the past 20 odd days in Tamil Nadu is that um it was increasingly becoming some sort of a triangular contest and if PJP were to you know really go out and win a few seats they would want to pitch the battle against DMK much more aggressively pit it against the DMK DMK BJP make it increasingly a DMK BJP War um and it's only then that they would be able to relegate admk which is a sharp Rising Force suddenly we are seeing uh them Gathering lot of crowds and you know doing bigger meetings yes in my sense U you know BJP would want that and even DMK would want to attack BJP more uh just so that the BJP strengthens further and there's further split of opposition vote um so I think uh you know there is there is some kind of a calculus that you will increasingly see from behind the curtains to DMK would want BJP to be stronger because that eats into opposition vote and BJP would want certainly to be seen as the biggest enemy of DMK and the draid uh dravidian votes out there and be that sort of only sole entity where people can seek Refuge so it works well uh but looking at the Arrogant remark of deidar um he is even in 2019 it was India today's platform where he said the same words against Kamal Hass he said who is Kamal Hassan what does he know about politics what he's he's a stoo of Amit sha derogatory and look at in 2024 he in his constituency the only person coming and campaigning for him is Kamal Hass yeah so this guy doesn't have basic shame basic public etiquet to to you know respect somebody uh who knows tomorrow he might quit DMK and come into any other party he'll have to eat his own words that's the whole problem having a demeanor in in in public life is very important you cannot mock a person who has captured the imagination of not just the media but the entire country Tamil Nadu was somewhat disconnected with the mainstream country and it was anamalai who is acting as a bridge in that and you just cannot simply say that who is anamalai and have condescending attitude towards that that clearly RS of arrogance and this is the symptomatic malice that the entire DMK is suffering from and this is I'm repeating that people the results might not showcase the anger of people against DMK is Sky High if the assembly elections were to happen in 2024 this whole party the entire entire machinery would have fallen apart but just that they still have two more years to course correct I don't know if they'll be able to do that or not but right now this is coming because of that frustration very interesting perspective sudir you want to add to that uh especially the interesting part you know see we live in a kind of political milu where intemperate remarks and abusive comments are you know not that surprising and and and quite frankly Joker compared to many of the other far less parliamentary things we've heard uh uh is is rather tame but but but but you know the arrogance and the entitlement and the smugness and the uh you know and the kind of just just the self of sense entitlement in the comment made by uh by by Dadi marahan is a is a different matter altogether but this whole calculus of of you know MK Stalin wanting to divide the opposition further by you know perhaps giving an inordinate amount of importance to the BJP through uh you know sort of strategic attacks of this kind that could also be part of it sudhir I'm not sure whether there was too much of strategy in the manner in which danan reacted to Raj in that interview I think the whole purpose was to somehow try and Mock analay and that is something which the DMK has been doing in fact trb Raja who is the state industries Minister uh when asked to comment on something which the BJP had said he said I don't reply to Children parties essentially saying that they loose change all and I will not react I will react only to the ammk which is the main opposition party so I'm in slight disagreement with what rajat said I think the DMK is trying to make it a bipolar contest between DMK and the AIA DMK because under under no circumstances it wants the BJP or the larger NDA to occupy the second position in many of the local because that would mean that they are in the Reckoning as far as 2026 is also concerned so the two dvan parties would really like the first and second position the winner and the runners sub position to be shared between them and the BJP to be relegated to the third place in as many constituencies as possible the idea is either to mock them the idea is either to ignore them that the race is between the admk and the DM okay rajat you want to quickly add to that before I go to Mr Rajan no I mean that's that's also a fair assessment I I just feel that uh you know uh seat after seat what I'm looking at is that uh with adk's rise DMK if it it it gets spitted against admk DMK doesn't stand a chance and I'm seeing that repeatedly in seats where there is more of a bipolar contest admk seems to be doing better than DM K wherever there is a triangular contest DMK is acing past you know the two and this is like a general theme that I'm capturing at the end what what is constant is dmk's vote share which was 50% in 2019 is coming down by 15% down to 35 36% that's the assessment that is happening and you know it's a fast depleting base remember Tamil Nadu is not a normal State like any other state where public voting pattern remains static throughout it changes very very quickly and you know even a week's time is a long time in in in the politics within the state of Tamil Nadu that is why you see every 5 years one you cannot claim that this is my base these are my base because it can swing one way or the other in a whff of few days this is why everybody is very cautious okay I'm almost out of time I want to get final comments from s Rajan and Naran Rajan first to you sentiments constantly change you know the the DMK wants to Mock anamalai and minimize him as much as possible uh uh but but this arrogance will come back uh you know to to to to to bring some accountability on the DMK including possibly in this election do you agree with that as far as my political uh knowledge in the last three decades I'm in politics as a politician and a lawyer from Tamil Nadu I have not seen an arrogant person like this ex policeman anamal honestly speaking I have nothing personal against him he is the most arrogant politician in the making he was helicoptered he was given pampered by BJP by giving him Z security giving him throwing him funds every month he was sponsored some huge lacks and lacks into his account he has been pumped in with all kinds of names and heroic he's energized the BJP inad that has to account for something Mr Raj the BJP is nowhere in tamad at least give me a second no give me a second no no give me a second see the he he might have energized the right wing and the BJP members which is uh 3 4% maybe 8 % also I don't being very dismissive in in a state that sentiments change often hon the statistics I'll give you the last word Mr dupati let me finish what share DMK the Muslims Christians GS everything put together so 45 to 50% is in favor of DMK as on Dat that's why that's how arithmetics Works no no but this is but this argument is not about arithmetics that's the point I'm making this this argument is about please please please please please allow me please allow me all this pampering and blowing out of proportions saying that he is our n all this is fine yes they are promoting they they are trying to make a um Mountain out of fine no issues but last minute I'll give the last minute to Mr yes sir yes sir you have a lot to respond to but try and capture that in one minute I don't want to you know answer for Mr because he's always personal against Mr from the day one we can see his feet so I don't want to you I ignore whatever he said being personal to Sir anyway not not Raj is my good friend but he has been abusing anomaly personally so I don't want yeah yeah you have okay as for as sud Mr sud had said I think Mr sud is wrong by stating that the DMK is trying to you know take admk as oppos because even today you can see Mr Stalin has opposed you know very hard against the BJP and as my other panelist said definitely the DMK is afraid of the you know BJP and Mr anomaly the young young very beautiful energetic leader he has created waves in and he has opposed the DMK to he has exposed DMK for the last two years and definitely people of Tamil Nadu is with Mr Anal and BJP we will see it will be a see the good news good news only 9 days to go as I always say as we countd down closer to the election all these discussions will become less and less relevant because ultimately we hand over to the voters and then we see what really happens so we'll have to see how it happens and I can promise you that all the people you see on your screen right now are going to be with us on this journey towards the elections because Tamil Nadu is absolutely exciting and we will continue to track it

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Published: Wed Apr 10 2024