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Team up with AIADMK to defeat DMK: Former minister tells Vijay
The Statesman Kolkata
|September 22, 2025
Appealing to actor and Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) president Vijay to join the AIADMK-led alliance to defeat the DMK, former AIADMK minister KT Rajenthra Baalaaji (photo) on Sunday said that otherwise, the TVK would be crushed by the DMK in the upcoming assembly election.
Even as Vijay has spurned any tie-up with the AIADMK, criticising its alliance with the BJP, Baalaaji told reporters in Virudhunagar that the actor-turned-neta should reconsider his decision of going solo. “Vijay should join hands with the AIADMK under the leadership of Edappadi K Palaniswami (E
This story is from the September 22, 2025 edition of The Statesman Kolkata.
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