Thalapathy Vijay Officially Takes Charge As Tamil Nadu CM | Historic Visuals From Secretariat

Added: 2026-05-11

[00:00:00]smaller, large, largely >> sorry, I'm interrupting. He's just I think reached the Secretariat.

[00:00:06]That's that's what we're given to understand.

[00:00:09]All right, he's being welcomed by all the officials there, whether it's the top police officers, top bureaucrats, as he takes inspects the guard of honor that's being given to him as Chief Minister.

[00:00:30]>> [music] >> So, we say there arriving at the Secretariat, the Fort St. George building, one of the oldest buildings in the city, built by the British JBC. I mean, there's been all kinds of, you know, superstition and astrology associated with that building. Who occupies the chair, which room, how is the chair faced, which direction does it face, so on and so forth. And we just also been, you know, astrologically inclined. I believe there's an astrologer who gave him the exact time of when he should be sworn in and which date and so on and so forth.

[00:01:21]Talk to us about it.

[00:01:23]See, I think you know, everybody Suba was talking about Dravidian ideology. I think any political observer even has to have a Dravidian ideology irrespective of the caste or religion they belong to.

[00:01:32]And every Dravidian ideologist is also astrologically, numerologically, superstitious.

[00:01:39]We all think that even PTR last year said, he said everybody who filed a nomination or who went and accepted the oath were all doing it on between so and so time on on such and date because that is the most auspicious date. We have seen Stalin doesn't go to the temple, but his wife goes to the temple. Yeah.

[00:01:57]Uh where they doesn't go to the temple, but his mother goes to the temple. So, one thing every politician has to be from the Dravidian mold. Number two, this astrology and numerology is something very much relevant. But, I have to say one thing, Zaka, the truth of the matter is this government is in the hands of Mr. M.K. Stalin. Mhm. And if Stalin as long as he finds that >> Right. Just just 1 second. He's now taking the seat the seat of the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. It's a big moment. You've got the big board uh behind him saying Government of Tamil Nadu, Tamil Nadu Arasu. Uh and he's waiting to take his seat there. There you go. He's seated in the Chief Minister's chair. None of us on this panel have ever sat on a Chief Minister's chair, but I guess this is a a big moment. So, I mean, what does this mean for a a new politician, somebody who just, you know, broke into the scene uh less than 2 years ago?

[00:02:55]Uh you know, ascending that I don't want to make this into like a king and throne kind of a comparison, but you know, for all practical purposes, it is what it is.

[00:03:05]It absolutely, you know, Zaka, I have to say this. It's very super uh superficial, but the suit. How many people have you seen in India? I mean, they're wearing kurta pajama. Modi ji has his clothes. Women will have a sari.

[00:03:20]And you know, Tamil Nadu has its own dress. So, the suit, it's it's it's a moment even from that very superficial level. I'm just saying that. I've not seen this before.

[00:03:30]I don't I've not seen someone getting sworn into such a big office in a suit.

[00:03:36]Yeah. So, Yeah, you know.

[00:03:39]Uh all right, let's get closing comments uh