A viral video of Union Home Minister Amit Shah apparently giving a dressing down to Tamilisai Soundararajan, a prominent BJP leader from Tamil Nadu, triggered speculations of the rift in the State BJP widening though no one knows what exactly transpired on the stage put up for the swearing in of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu in Vijayawada on Wednesday. In the video, the former Governor of Telangana, Soundararajan, is seen walking briskly on the stage to take her seat when she wishes former Vice President Venkiah Naidu and Amit Shah, who were seated next to each other, and goes past them when Shah beckons her with a raised finger. During the conversation that ensued between them, Shah looked grim even while speaking to her animatedly, gesticulating with his finger that looked more like a warning.
Though Sounderarajan was seemingly trying to explain her point of view, Shah remained angry all through the conversation, which led to viewers surmising that it could be only over the recent outbursts of Soundararajan against the BJP State president K Annamalai and the party’s IT wing on the raging debate in the party over the BJP and AIADMK parting ways ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. On her landing in Chennai from Vijayawada after the swearing in was over, Soundararajan left the airport in a huff without responding to the volley of questions fired at her by waiting media persons, which was seen as unusual as the BJP leader is otherwise known for her affable a.
