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".

"If we were racist, why would we have the entire South? Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and Andhra... Why do we live with them? We have black people around us," Vijay, a former Rajya Sabha MP, was heard saying in the video shared by DMK's IT wing.

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.

In the old clip, Maran compared people who learnt English and those who only learnt Hindi and said the former end up in IT companies while the latter do menial jobs.

Poonawalla said the INDIA bloc's agenda was to "divide and rule and insult Sanatana Dharma and divide the people of the country".

(With inputs from agencies)