An undated audio clip attributed to DMK leader A. Raja has surfaced on social media, sparking a fresh political controversy in Tamil Nadu. The clip, which is being circulated online as previously unreleased, allegedly captures Raja speaking about his time in jail in connection with the 2G spectrum case and his interactions with senior leaders of the DMK.
We had earlier reported a part of the video where A Raja reveals alleged details about the 2G scam and who was behind it. In the longer part of the leaked audio clipping, he is heard talking about MK Stalin.
He says,
Raja says, “Did any MLA from DMK come? Did any MP come? Did any party member come? I was arrested, and only two months later did Kanimozhi come inside [the prison]. Until then, how many people, including those from Nilgiris, came to see me? What must my mental state have been inside that jail? Did you take anything from my house? The money went to Kalaignar TV, I don’t want to say more than that. Did the CBI take anything from my house? Who came to see me?”
He continued, “Did a DMK representative leader come? Did our leader send Duraimurugan? Did a single minister come? The leadership didn’t come. You must have come out of personal affection. After Kanimozhi came, then suddenly the whole army came – ministers rushing in one after another, dhur dhur dhur. Don’t I know that? But during those two months, what must my mental state have been? What would have happened if I had been bust?”
He further says, “Azhagiri came one day – there’s no secret in this. After Kanimozhi’s arrest, Azhagiri came and said, “Everything given to Kalaignar TV, wasn’t it all Stalin’s doing? Why are you and Kanimozhi in jail, why don’t you say Stalin did everything and just become an approver, and you can come out.” Look, whenever trials come in life, I always say this: Please, in politics, especially having been in such positions of power – learn to endure the heat a little. Don’t go running away in panic. I cannot say your political future is over because of this.”
He continues, “I have been a cabinet minister twice, I was cruising at the top. There is no country I have not been to. YDF has no qualification to become the chief. How does a cadre respect him? If you are not able to control your cadres, how can you be a chief?”
The clip seems to have been paused for a bit as there is a slight reduction in tone and voice. He says, “Please don’t do anything foolish or get carried away by your emotions—don’t go and ruin everything. Let me tell you one more thing. let it remain between us. After Kalaignar, the party will go to him (Stalin). But it will slip out of my grasp. Wait for time – six months, or a year. The wind will change, the wind will change. Think like that.
After I come out, you definitely ask me. When I come out, when I walk out like a hero, a book of mine will be published. It will be published in English and Tamil. Hindu Ram read it and was shocked and ask, ‘What is this, Sir? You’ve really torn into them!’ I have torn everything apart in it. In that, from Pranab Mukherjee, Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh, Chidambaram – how I handled them, all that will be there. That book will become a big star. Until then I will keep quiet and endure. After that I will create a separate identity for myself. Ask me how.
In the northern districts, Vanniyars will be .., but Sivasankar will tell you what kind of a man I am. In my town there is no caste for me. Vanniyars are all my friends, like my own people. Even now, wherever I go, if some ‘Gounder’ is looking at me lowly? All Gounders stand at attention. So I have stepped beyond caste. To live like that, do I have enough money? Do I have enough brains? Kalaignar has gone. Let Kanimozhi and Stalin settle their quarrel. For now he (Stalin) has the big brain, he brings English whenever he goes to Delhi. One more thing – He will not trust his ‘thangachi’ (younger sister) Kanimozhi. He will not push her out either. He cannot throw me out. They cannot throw out my community or my intellect. They cannot take away the other wealth I have; I’ve kept it in other lockers. Understand?
The time is not right for me now. Just listen. I can’t go talk to the leader directly. He is going, banging his head and coming back, he is thinking he is MGR. After the leader is gone, a set-back will come. All the Brahmin media will hit him, all the Hindu, Express and others will hammer him. They are already doing it. He thinks he can win like MGR, but the ground is not like that.
Right now, his own father is like a prisoner. The leader has taken him out of the game. If you go and clash with him now, it will go in a very different direction. Please, overnight, convince for my sake, he said. ‘Come, we’ll go and move where we must move.’ I tell you how correct I was. For me, what is intelligent is not to go and shout on the streets. That is the difference between a Brahmin and us – we raise the sickle, but he will not; he will finish the job silently.
I will show from inside the Assembly what I will speak. Even tonight I will show. I have never changed my language with Stalin. I called him and said, ‘Today this happened.’ Down below there is a group under him. Compromise means you agree to be controlled. By 10:30 at night his campaign will end. Then this group will come back. When they come, I will give a sharp warning so they will ask what happened. I will give a sharp warning. …”
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