TAMIL NADU: Continuing his tirade against the ruling DMK, Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) president and film star Vijay on Monday (Feb 2) reiterated the claim of the TVK being a force of purity enjoying mass support and asserted that only it could defeat the ‘evil force DMK’ in the coming assembly election.
“Only a force of purity can defeat an evil force. Whatever might come in our way, whether it is a ‘dabba engine’ or a ‘worn-out engine’, we remain the top engine. It is being said that there is a three-cornered or four-cornered contest in this election. For me, we are the one with people’s support. The others are the DMK front and the one headed by the BJP and others. Whoever comes, only the TVK, which has massive support of the masses, can defeat the DMK,” the actor-turned politician said, addressing party functionaries on the occasion of the TVK’s 3rd foundation day at suburban Panaiyur.
“It is habitual for the DMK to run down anyone who stands up to them in politics and ridicule whether they have experience. They questioned MGR (AIADMK founder and legendary film star) whether he knew the alphabet of politics. They asked whether Kamaraj (Congress veteran and former Chief Minister) knew literature. Now, they are targeting us,” he said, adding, “It is despite these that we have grown up as a major political force.”
He asked the DMK to change its technique of criticism at a time when technology has grown leaps and bounds. “They continue to play with a 50-year-old ‘dabba’. What else does the platinum jubilee baby perform other than this? But, for this, we can’t be charitable towards them. As the sole representative of the people, we will carry on the task of exposing their omissions and commissions,” Vijay said.
“People are in tears that these people are in the place once graced by Kamaraj, Anna (DMK founder and former CM) and MGR. Had sage poet Thiruvalluvar been now, he would have written his first couplet about this evil force thus: ‘Injustice, atrocity, cheating, and so on have sprouted in the world only since the DMK’s advent’,” he claimed.
Responding to criticism that he is yet to come out of his cocoon and comfort of the home, he said, “You are continuously ranting ‘Hey Vijay come out of your house?’ Listen, patently boss. On the date of polling, every Vijay from each house in Tamil Nadu, with the voter ID in hand, will queue up before each booth. Then you will realise why we have asked him so.” On the charge that whatever he speaks has the shade of cinema, he quipped “I have given up films, but it seems they haven’t!”
Dismissing certain pre-poll surveys that discredit the TVK, Vijay said “TVK is there in each house. Even the Chief Minister, who bemoaned that because of certain DMK functionaries, he has lost sleep, would say that he had voted for ‘whistle’ (TVK’s symbol), if woken up when asleep!” Earlier in the day, in a post on ‘X’, he said, “The 2026 election dynamics have changed and acquired a new environment only because of the entry of the TVK, which is the war cry for ensuring political power to the common man.” - The Statesman/ANN
