Tamil Nadu Bypoll Battle
Actor-turned-politician Vijay attacks ruling DMK and AIADMK ahead of Tamil Nadu bypolls.
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Ahead of Tamil Nadu’s Madurantakam Assembly bypoll, Chief Minister and TVK leader C. Joseph Vijay accused the DMK of corruption and claimed the AIADMK had become a “branch” of the DMK, casting TVK as the alternative. DMK spokesperson TKS Elangovan rejected Vijay’s claims, saying the DMK opposes the BJP and criticizing the government’s proposed 45-day water release as insufficient for Samba crops. AIADMK spokesperson Kovai Sathyan also disputed Vijay’s portrayal of an AIADMK-DMK alliance, arguing that voters were rejecting TVK’s candidate, a former AIADMK member, and predicting TVK would fare poorly in the bypolls.
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Vijay said the DMK was trying to defame him over his corruption remarks, referring to criticism that he was speaking about corruption from “50 years ago,” and vowed not to spare those involved.
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Vijay challenged the DMK to say it would not engage in corruption, framing the contest as TVK, the “pure force,” against the DMK, the “evil force.”
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Vijay told Madurantakam voters he had come not as Chief Minister but “as one among you – as your brother,” and described TVK as a party of laymen and common people.
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The Madurantakam race was described as a multi-cornered contest; TVK fielded K. Maragatham Kumaravel, a former AIADMK MLA.
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