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Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) president Vijay, connected Sunday (November 23, 2025), alleged the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) has forgotten the principles and ideals of its enactment laminitis C.N. Annadurai. He accused the ruling enactment of making “looting arsenic its principle” and speaking astir ideologies portion burying them successful practice.
The actor-turned-politician was addressing enactment supporters from Kancheepuram territory astatine a limited-access, indoor gathering astatine a backstage assemblage successful Sunguvarchathiram which marked the archetypal nationalist engagement of Mr. Vijay astir 2 months aft 41 persons died successful a stampede astatine a governmental rally helium addressed astatine Karur.
The TVK person said: “Kancheepuram is the birthplace of Anna [C.N. Annadurai]. When MGR [M.G. Ramachandran] founded his enactment [the AIADMK], helium chose to diagnostic Anna’s look connected the enactment flag, arsenic Anna had been his guiding light. But those who aboriginal captured the enactment founded by Anna person acted successful ways that request nary explanation. The radical of Tamil Nadu cognize what has been happening.”
He added, “Personally, we [TVK] person nary occupation with them [DMK]. They whitethorn hatred me, but we bash not hatred them. But they cheated america to travel to powerfulness and past pretended to bash good. How tin we stay soundless without questioning them? We volition not halt questioning them.”
Recalling helium had begun his archetypal nationalist outreach successful enactment of farmers opposing the projected greenfield airdrome astatine Parandur, helium said, “After a play of large turmoil, our nationalist outreach programme has resumed, and it begins again successful Kancheepuram. We are pursuing the way shown by Anna, who said Makkalidam Sel (reach retired to the people). But those who tally the enactment contiguous person deviated from Anna’s principles.”
He powerfully objected to DMK functionaries calling the TVK a enactment without principles. “For a enactment that declared Pirapokkum Ella Uyrikkum (all beings are adjacent by birth), however tin they accidental we person nary principles? We opposed the CAA adjacent earlier our enactment was formed. We person been advocating for a caste census to guarantee societal justness for everyone. We were the archetypal to approach the Supreme Court against the Waqf (Amendment) Act,” helium said.
Problems plaguing Kancheepuram
Speaking astir issues successful Kancheepuram district, Mr. Vijay said the Palar stream had deteriorated due to the fact that of amerciable soil mining. A full of 22.7 lakh units of soil had been illegally mined, causing a nonaccomplishment of ₹4,730 crore. The weavers of world-renowned Kancheepuram silk continued to unrecorded successful poverty, and the Tamil Nadu authorities had taken nary measures to renovate the aged autobus basal successful the town, helium said, reiterating that his enactment would proceed to basal with the farmers implicit the Parandur airdrome issue.
“I person entered authorities lone to bash bully for the people. I person nary different motive,” helium claimed, adding, “that is wherefore we person intelligibly declared our ideological and governmental enemies, and we basal opposed to them.”
Mr. Vijay besides objected to his enactment supporters being called tharkuri (nincompoop). “We are not tharkuri. We are acharyakuri (exclamation mark) and maatrathirkaana arikuri (a motion of change) successful Tamil Nadu politics,” helium believed.
