Vijay Targets DMK For Attack At Anniversary Address

Chennai: Launching an acrimonious attack on the DMK, the founder president of Tamilaga Vetri Kazhagam (TVK), actor Vijay, said his party, as the only ‘Whistleblower’ in the State’s politics, stood out like a colossus as the leading party capable of vanquishing the ‘evil forces’ even in the face of the media predicting a three-cornered or four cornered contest in the coming elections.

Delivering a speech marking the second anniversary of the party’s founding on Monday, Vijay said only the TVK was empowered to take on the DMK and its allies though the AIADMK, the BJP and other parties were also on another side of the battle lines.

He compared him to AIADMK founder M G Ramachandran (MGR) and the role MGR played in defeating the DMK in 1977 despite the criticism he faced for being an actor. The same ‘forces’ that were now targeting him by saying that he had no experience like MGR and that he was just an actor with no knowledge of politics, he said.

He said that people were regretting that those ‘forces’ were now warming the seat occupied by great leaders like K Kamaraj, C N Annadurai and MGR once in the same manner in which MGR, in a radio interview in 1977, had said that the people were agonizing over the seat occupied by Annadurai being captured by them.

The TVK was formed to wipe the tears of those people resenting the ascending of the DMK to power after 2017, particularly after 2021, he said added that the DMK was using the same weapons they used in 1977 to denigrate MGR, tempting him to tell them ‘gentlemen, the times have changed and technology had developed, please change your strategy.’

To the call given by some asking Vijay to come out of his house, he said it sounded as though they wanted every Vijay and Viji to come out of their homes. It would happen on electionday when every Vijay and Viji would line up in front of the polling booths with their voter id cards, forcing those who made the call to regret their action.

Similarly, in a bid to reply to each of the charges against him, Vijay, hitting out at those taking pre-poll election surveys, said that those pollsters who were making predictions would know that there were voters for the TVK in each and every household if they were to go from street to street in places across the State.

To the allegation that TVK was popular only in the urban areas, he said that the election symbol ‘whistle’ was popular all over the State and wherever the symbol was popular, the party would gain votes that could never be bought over by any other party.