Amid toilet remark row, DMK posts old clip of BJP leader calling South Indians 'black'

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The video was shared amid a controversy over DMK MP Dayanidhi Maran's 'Hindi speakers toilet' remark, a video of which surfaced...

After DMK MP Dayanidhi Maran's old clip of his 'Hindi speakers toilet remark' went viral on social media, the party has now shared a video of BJP leader Tarun Vijay who is heard calling the South Indians "black people"...

On Saturday, a controversy erupted when a clip of Maran, at an event in 2019, said Hindi speakers from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar who come to Tamil Nadu end up doing construction work or cleaning roads and toilets.. The clip was shared by several BJP leaders, including Shehzad Poonawalla, who slammed INDIA bloc leaders for not speaking against the DMK MP...

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