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Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) president Vijay connected Wednesday (November 5, 2025) took beardown objection to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin’s remarks successful the Assembly connected October 15 regarding the Karur stampede astatine his rally successful which 41 persons died. He alleged Mr. Stalin’s code was filled with governmental hostility.
Addressing the party’s peculiar wide assembly gathering astatine a backstage edifice successful Mamallapuram, Mr. Vijay besides reiterated that the 2026 Assembly elections would beryllium a contention lone betwixt the TVK and the DMK. The party’s wide assembly besides passed a solution that it would contention the elections nether Mr. Vijay’s enactment and authorised him to instrumentality decisions regarding alliances amid speculations astir a imaginable confederation with the AIADMK-BJP combine.
The TVK person said helium and his enactment had been successful heavy grief implicit the stampede deaths. “That is wherefore I person maintained soundlessness each these days,” helium claimed. “But during this time, respective malicious governmental campaigns and baseless rumours person been dispersed astir us. All these volition beryllium wiped retired with the assistance of information and justice,” helium said.
He accused the Chief Minister of making mendacious allegations portion claiming not to politicise the tragedy. “His code successful the Assembly was filled with bitterness and governmental animosity,” helium said.
Mr. Vijay said the enactment had organised nationalist meetings not lone successful Karur but besides successful different districts, and that support for these events was often delayed until the past moment. Whenever the enactment projected venues wherever radical could stitchery comfortably, the requests were rejected, and cramped locations were allotted instead, helium alleged.
According to him, nary governmental person successful India had faced specified excessive restrictions. He questioned Mr. Stalin whether helium had forgotten that the Supreme Court had asked respective questions to the lawyers representing the DMK government, leaving them incapable to support their position, regarding the Karur stampede.
“After the Karur incident, the State authorities hurriedly announced a one-member committee of inquiry. Soon after, elder officials and constabulary officers held a property league spreading misinformation astir us. People crossed Tamil Nadu wondered wherefore specified media briefings were held,” helium said.
Mr. Vijay accused Mr. Stalin of playing a crippled solely for governmental gains. “This is thing caller for him and his party. Since 1972, erstwhile nary 1 was near to question the DMK leadership, this has been their approach. The people’s religion successful this authorities has been buried. If the Chief Minister inactive fails to spot this, the radical volition marque him and the DMK enactment realise it profoundly successful the 2026 elections,” helium said.
This was Mr. Vijay’s archetypal governmental code astir 38 days aft the Karur tragedy. In a closed-door lawsuit connected October 27, helium had met respective household members of the victims astatine the aforesaid venue.
The enactment besides passed 12 resolutions astatine the meeting, including condemning the State authorities for the emergence successful crimes against women and the deteriorating instrumentality and bid situation, condoling the deaths successful Karur, and criticising the BJP-led Union authorities and the ruling DMK for failing to forestall the repeated arrests of fishermen from Tamil Nadu and Puducherry by Sri Lankan authorities.
The assembly besides opposed the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll, condemned the State authorities for the reported delays successful procuring Kuruvai paddy successful the Cauvery delta, urged extortion of the Pallikaranai marshland, and demanded a achromatic insubstantial connected investments and employment procreation since the DMK assumed powerfulness successful 2021.
The assembly observed 2 minutes of soundlessness successful representation of those who died successful Karur.
