Vijay slams ‘dynamic DMK,’ positions TVK as alternative

Sharpening his attack on the ruling DMK, labelling it as dynastic with the sole policy of ‘looting’ actor-turned politician and Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) president Vijay on Sunday charged the Dravidian major with having forgotten the ideals of the party founder ‘Anna’ (CN Annadurai), paying only lip service to them.

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He was countering Chief Minister MK Stalin for debunking the TVK as a party without policies or ideology, and the DMK ecosystem denigrating TVK supporters as ‘illiterate ignoramuses’ in his first mass outreach at an indoor meeting in a private engineering college at Sunguvarchatram in Kancheepuram district.

“TVK supporters are not Tharkuri (illiterate), but harbingers of change. This is nothing new. Earlier, in 1972, when MGR (matinee icon MG Ramachandran) launched the ATADMK, his supporters were termed koothadi (follower of a film star) and the party was called as koothadi party. But Tamil Nadu stood with them! It is history, which they know better than us, and that is why they are using what they have coined for insult 53 years ago,” he said.