New Delhi, Sept. 6 -- A fixed-deposit-related advertisement displayed on a metro in Tamil Nadu's capital, Chennai, has become a political flashpoint in the southern state after DMK (Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam) MP Thamizhachi Thangapandian said it 'portrays women as objects'.

The advertisement promoting financial investments by a co-operative credit society, THECOS, drew a comparison between its interest rates and those supposedly offered by a girlfriend.

The institution said that a "girlfriend may give 0 per cent interest", using the remark to draw attention to the returns available to its customers.

The DMK MP shared a snapshot of the advertisement displayed on the metro and questioned how the Chennai Metro Rail administration had perm...