Vijay Targets DMK For Attack At Anniversary Address

Chennai: Making a scathing attack on the DMK, actor Vijay, founder president of Tamilaga Vetri Kazhagam (TVK), said that his party, as the only ‘Whistleblower’ in state politics, has emerged like a giant party as the leading party that can defeat the ‘evil forces’ even in the face of the media predicting a three-cornered or four-cornered race in the upcoming elections.

Addressing the second anniversary of the party’s founding on Monday, Vijay said that only the TVK has the authority to fight the DMK and its allies even though the AIADMK, the BJP and other parties are also on the other side of the battle lines.

He compared him to AIADMK founder MG Ramachandran (MGR) and the role MGR played in defeating the DMK in 1977 despite the criticism he faced for being a player. He said that now the same ‘forces’ are targeting him by saying that he does not have experience like MGR and that he is an actor with no knowledge of politics.

He said people regret that these ‘forces’ are now warming the seat occupied by great leaders like K Kamaraj, CN Annadurai and MGR; just like MGR said in a radio interview in 1977 that people were suffering because the seat occupied by Annadurai had been captured by them.

TVK was formed to wipe away the tears of people who were upset about DMK coming to power after 2017, especially after 2021. He added that the DMK used the same weapons that he used to defame MGR in 1977, prompting him to tell them, ‘gentlemen, times have changed and technology has improved, please change your strategy’.

He said that based on the call made by some people who want Vijay to come out of his house, it sounds like they want every Vijay and Viji to come out of their house. This was an incident where on election day, every Vijay and Viji lined up outside the polling booths with their voter ID cards, forcing the callers to regret their actions.

Similarly, in a bid to respond to each of the charges leveled against him, Vijay hit out at those who took pre-poll polls, saying that pollsters making predictions would know that voters for TVK were present in every house if they went street to street across the state.

Countering TVK’s claim that it was popular only in urban areas, he said the election symbol ‘whistle’ was popular all over the state and wherever the symbol was popular the party would win votes which no other party could ever buy.