Tamil → English transcript

But in a political party you can't keep someone there unless someone is watching over them.

This is all a voluntary mechanism.

By spending our own pocket money, we will stay in politics.

You asked our question.

You asked the question; answer it — hand payment.

Everyone comes here and creates work for the children.

We'll keep creating work for the children as long as we can.

From the political party.

No — if that's the case, we should do other work.

Do that as a social activist.

Do the same work only as social service.

I want clean, honest politics in Tamil Nadu.

Do you need a position for that?

Mahatma Gandhi — how many posts did he hold? In 1921, only for one year.

He was president of the All-India Congress for just one year.

Is it only with a position that one can do work?

Is it only with a position that one can do work?

Is it only with a position that one can do work?

Can you only work if you have a position?

Can you only work if you have a position?

Many people have already said it.

I come into politics from humble beginnings.

First-generation family, farmers, no backup at all.

One can start and run a small enterprise.

I know four lives like that.

I have so little confidence and not even a scrap of support, but I know how to undertake the journey.

As a first-generation person, I keep fighting to bring about change.

Sometimes I speak against my conscience.

My conscience says one thing, my mouth says another.

Because that's what the leaders say.

For the leaders, for the assembly's dignity, for the assembly's civility.

There are some places where one must speak.

Yet there are some things that cannot be tolerated.

If you wait and endure, good things will happen.