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Vijay Resumes Campaign With DMK Broadside, Avoids Addressing Karur Stampede

His tightly managed indoor return shifted attention to ideological attacks with welfare pledges.

Overview

  • At a limited-access indoor meeting in Sunguvarchattiram, Kancheepuram, Vijay held his first public event since the September 27 Karur crush that killed 41 people and said he would speak about the tragedy later.
  • The gathering was capped at roughly 2,000 with QR-coded passes after a larger Salem launch was postponed on police advice, marking a controlled restart to TVK’s outreach.
  • Vijay accused the DMK of looting and dynasty politics and of abandoning C. N. Annadurai’s ideals, while defending TVK’s ideology by citing opposition to the CAA and support for a caste census.
  • He outlined goals such as permanent housing, a motorcycle for every household with pathways to car ownership, one graduate and one earning member per family, stronger public hospitals, stricter law and order, and shifting education to the state list.
  • He spotlighted local grievances by alleging Rs 4,730 crore illegal sand mining in the Palar, backing Parandur airport protesters, highlighting weavers’ low wages, and pressing for a new Kancheepuram bus stand and a check dam, as TVK also moved the Supreme Court against the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision.