Director Seeman, who has these days taken the mantle of the last speaker, was held under the National Security Act in November for making a speech in support of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam chief V Prabhakaran. The firebrand, who has cultivated a following for himself these recent months, began his speech with a reference to his term in jail.
"I, the grandson of Periyar (E V Ramasamy Naicker, founder of the Dravidian movement in Tamil Nadu) student of (Karl) Marx and brother of Prabhakaran, have come here to talk about the plight of the Tamil people," he said as the crowd roared in approval.
"I say it again. Brother of Prabhakaran. Only because I said that was I imprisoned under the NSA."
Taking a dig at Chidambaram and other Congress leaders, he asked: "You people in the Congress call someone who has come from 3,000 miles afar ammai (mother). But you have a problem if I call someone who is a mere 30 kilometres away annan (brother)?"
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