Overview

• At TVK’s second state conference in Madurai, Vijay projected himself as the party’s chief ministerial face and announced he will contest from Madurai East.
• He said TVK will field candidates across all 234 constituencies and urged voters to treat every TVK nominee as if he were the candidate.
• Rejecting alliances, Vijay called the BJP his ideological foe and the DMK his principal political opponent, and he alleged the DMK maintains a secret understanding with the BJP.
• He pressed populist issues including scrapping NEET, securing fishermen and retrieving Katchatheevu, cited Keezhadi findings, and accused both the Centre and the state government of neglecting Tamil interests.
• The show of strength featured seating for over 1.5 lakh and heavy security with roughly 2,700 police; a crane-hoisted flagpole fell without injuries, and a TVK worker died after collapsing en route to the event, according to hospital confirmation.