CHENNAI: TVK president Vijay on Sunday said the resounding support from the public to his statewide visit launched from Tiruchy has caused much anxiety to the ruling DMK, and it is evident from the letter written by Chief Minister M K Stalin to the party cadre. However, Vijay did not name the DMK president in his statement.
“The spontaneous awakening that has emerged for TVK, not only within TN but beyond it, has caused much anxiety to our opponents. The public themselves have started questioning the obstacles they pose to the TVK,” Vijay said.
Stating that even a distance that could be crossed easily took hours with the sea of humanity that gathered for his visit, the TVK president said the DMK president, in his letter to the party cadre about the “Mupperum Vizha”, referred to ‘new enemies’ cropping up in the political arena without naming the TVK.
“Is it not the Tamil tradition that the old gives way to the new? The letter itself was dripped with words of bitterness and despair,” Vijay added.
Reeling out questions on how the DMK government tried to suppress the voice of sanitation workers, anganwadi workers, differently-abled people, struggles of doctors, nurses and farmers, Vijay said it is not new for the DMK to brand any new movement that the people start as ‘unprincipled crowd’.
“Did they not spew the same venom at MGR, describing him as one who ‘knows nothing of politics’ and depended on ‘mere charm’. No matter how bitterly they cry, the TVK will move forward,” Vijay added.
Meanwhile, in another statement, Vijay apologised to the people of Perambalur for not being able to visit them on Saturday and promised that he would be meeting them soon.