Members of Dindigul District Digital Cable TV and Internet Operators affiliation staging an illustration in entrance of the Collectorate in Dindigul, Tamil Nadu, on November 21, 2022, over the disconnection of Arasu Cable Connection for the previous three days.
| Photo Credit: G. Karthikeyan
Former Information Minister Kadambur C. Raju on Thursday urged the State Government to make sure uninterrupted services of the Tamil Nadu Arasu Cable TV Corporation.
In an announcement, he mentioned Arasu Cable TV had over 29 lakh subscribers throughout the erstwhile AIADMK regime however after the DMK took over the reins of administration, over 9 lakh subscribers had been “forced” to shift to different service suppliers, on account of “intentional technical glitch” that affected the set-top containers.
Mr. Raju referred to protests staged by cable TV operators in numerous elements of the State and underlined reported observations made by the Madras High Court.
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He alleged that when a 17-year-old footballer died in Chennai allegedly on account of medical negligence by authorities medical doctors the Health Minister was watching the primary present on the primary day of a film (starring DMK youth wing chief Udhayanidhi Stalin).
Referring to sure video clippings circulated in social media, Mr. Raju charged: “The Chief Minister, who is supposed to lead them politically and in the government is enquiring the [Health] Minister about his son’s movie.” The Minister describing the attentiveness of the patrons throughout the screening of the film was “the fate we brought it on ourselves”, Mr. Raju charged.
Pointing to a different video clipping, Mr. Raju contended: “Those in the cine field were apprehensive their industry would come under the control of a family, whenever DMK formed the government. It has become true under this DMK government.”