Vijay invokes MGR and Jaya to brand DMK as evil, hails TVK as ‘pure force’

TVK president Vijay on Thursday tore into the DMK, terming the ruling party an “evil force”, a phrase coined by AIADMK stalwarts MG Ramachandran and J Jayalalithaa to target the Dravidian major.

- P SRINIVASAN @Erode

“I am repeating what they (MGR and Jayalalithaa) said: the DMK is a ‘theeya sakthi’ (evil force),” Vijay said during a public meeting at Vijayaman-galam in Erode ~ his first in Tamil Nadu after the September 27 Karur rally wherein 41 people were killed in a stampede. He had held a closed-door meeting with a select audience in Kancheepuram after that, apart from addressing a rally in Puducherry.

Describing the TVK as a “thooya sakthi” (pure force), Vijay said, “The political battle is between the TVK and the DMK alone.”