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Positioning the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) arsenic an alternate to some the ruling NDA (AINRC-BJP alliance) and the absorption INDIA bloc for the April 9 Assembly elections successful the Union Territory, TVK president C. Joseph Vijay said connected Saturday (April 4, 2026) that a disunited INDIA bloc and an NDA formed retired of compulsions would not beryllium capable to enactment for the payment of the radical of Puducherry.
Addressing a gathering astatine Kokkupark successful Puducherry town, the actor-turned-politician said that some the Congress and the DMK had ruled the Union Territory for a agelong clip successful the past, and that the AINRC-BJP authorities was present successful power. He added that some fronts had failed to enactment for the payment of the people.
“The constituents of the INDIA bloc are warring against each different successful respective places successful the Union Territory. There are problems wrong that beforehand adjacent successful Tamil Nadu. While the Congress-DMK confederation successful Puducherry is confused and divided, the AINRC and the BJP are unneurotic retired of compulsion. Some radical tried to dispersed the falsehood that the TVK would articulation immoderate of these parties for the elections, but we person shown the courageousness to contention the elections alone,” helium said.
Mr. Vijay campaigning from his conveyance successful Puducherry | Photo Credit: B. Jothi Ramalingam
Promising to basal with disadvantaged sections and minorities, the TVK person urged electors not to ballot for those “claiming to support the interests of minorities oregon those moving against the community.”
Promises of Statehood
Mr. Vijay said his enactment would strive to get Statehood for Puducherry truthful that an elected authorities could relation without interference from the Lt. Governor. He added that, if his enactment secured a bulk successful the elections, section assemblage elections would beryllium held successful the Union Territory wrong six months of the enactment of the government.
The TVK was fixed support to clasp street-corner meetings astatine Kokkupark, the Venkatasubba Reddiyar statue, Thavalakuppam, and Koodapakkam. However, arsenic Mr. Vijay’s conveyance crossed the Puducherry borderline adjacent Kalapet, helium got into his run conveyance to greet radical who had lined up connected either broadside of the ECR successful ample numbers.
The constabulary had a pugnacious clip preventing radical from coming adjacent to his vehicle. In definite places on the agelong from Kalapet to Kokkupark, they had to edifice to mild caning to disperse youngsters who tried to scope retired to Mr. Vijay.
