Salem: The DMDK leader and chief ministerial candidate of PWA-DMDK alliance ‘Captain’ Vijayakanth lost his cool yet again with journalists in Salem on Wednesday.
Soon after he alighted from the car to participate in a consultative meet with his party candidates for the upcoming assembly polls, journalists gathered around him to ask questions. A visibly upset, Vijayakanth, folded his tongue and raised his hand as if to assault the media personnel. He then angrily gestured by waving his hands around to make way for him.
Further, a security guard, who was walking alongside while taking the stairs also was at the receiving end, as captain nudged him without any clear signs of provocation.
The visuals repeatedly aired in television channels, show the security guard trying to help out Vijayakanth by holding him, when he slipped on the stairs.
This is not the first incident that Captain has been losing his tempers, as he had behaved in an unruly manner with the media several times in the past too.
On December 29 last year, Vijayakanth flew into a rage, when a journalist asked him if the ruling AIADMK would capture power in next assembly elections.
Hurling abuses at the journalists, he dared them to ask similar questions to Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa and also spat at them.
Since then, Vijayakanth avoids interacting with journalists to keep away from controversies over the last three months. Exactly at this time last year, the DMDK leader lost his cool as he gestured to fling a micro phone at a scribe and tried to walk out of the press conference, while addressing media along with representatives of various parties after meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
His impulsive approach towards media also came to the fore a few years ago at the Chennai airport, when he angrily broke into a quarrel with a scribe, who sought to know his reaction on some of his MLA’s aligning with AIADMK dissatisfied with his party’s performance.
Known for his nature of courting controversies with media, Vijayakanth, is now testing his electoral prospects from Ullundurpet in the May 16 Assembly polls.
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