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Genuine Praise Or PR Stunt? – Back To Back Videos Featuring Same Person Praising DMK Govt

November 24, 2023
The Commune

A few days ago, a video of a senior citizen speaking with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin during his morning walk went viral on social media platform X. The gentleman is seen praising the Chief Minister in the video.

He says, “You are doing a great job. Continue doing it. Do a good job like your father. You will come back to power, you don’t have to worry about that. Do what you have been doing, and you will do well. Don’t bother about what people are talking about. You cannot control anyone’s tongue in this day and age. I hope you have good health.” 

Today, yet another video of the same gentleman speaking with Stalin and Ma Subramaniam during their morning walk was telecast on news channels as well as circulated on social media platform X. In this video, the senior citizen is found praising DMK Minister PK Sekar Babu. The same gentleman standing near his red car but wearing a different outfit says, “All are saying that you are not doing anything for our temples. But as per your advice, Sekar Babu has ensured that temples get good income. Someone was holding the land, he retrieved it; no one publishes it or talks about it.” TN Health Minister Ma Subramaniam and Stalin interject saying he has given a befitting response to Nirmala Sitharaman’s allegations of encroaching temple land. But the old man continues to speak. 

He says, “He has done so much for temples. So many kumbhabishekams are happening, earlier nothing like this used to happen, at least for the past 10 years. ” Again Ma Subramaniam butts in saying, “At least 1000 kumbhabishekams have been done in the past 2 years. The 1001st kumbhabishekam was conducted last month.”

The old man gives both of them what looks like visiting cards and says, “There never used to be kumbhabishekams done earlier.” Stalin then says that people were waiting for him and he had to leave and they part ways.

Now what is weird about these two interactions is that the same people meet at the same location in both instances and each time they speak as if they are meeting each other for the first time. 

It is a matter of wonder why a senior citizen speaking in what sounds like a typical Tambram-accented Tamil is praising the government and the ministers when it is an open secret that temple lands have been encroached, temple funds have been misused by the HR&CE government, when law and order are in shambles in the state, and the lay citizen in Tamil Nadu is facing problems day in and day out with something as basic as an altered variant of the milk that they use in their daily diet.

DMK supporters and news media praised the “humble” nature of the Chief Minister to pause his daily walk and talk to a citizen of the state.

 

 

 

 

Several netizens claimed this gentleman could have been set up as a part of a PR-building exercise by the government to show him in a good light. Here are some reactions.

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