CHENNAI: Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) president and actor Vijay on Friday declared that his party was firm about never allying, directly or indirectly, with the BJP, who he termed as the party’s “ideological foe” and a “divisive force”.
Addressing the party’s first state executive committee meeting in Panaiyur, he further said that a TVK-led alliance in Tamil Nadu will always be against both the DMK and the BJP. He said TVK is not like the DMK or the AIADMK to compromise and form an alliance with the BJP.
His statement came amid signalling, including from a section of the State unit of the BJP, that TVK would be welcome to join the AIADMK-BJP alliance to defeat the DMK.
Blaming the ruling party at the Centre for using divisive and polarising tactics to succeed in certain States, he said that such a strategy will never work in Tamil Nadu, which is deeply rooted in social justice and fraternity. He said that the BJP cannot expect to succeed in Tamil Nadu by insulting leaders like ‘Periyar’ EV Ramasamy or CN Annadurai.
The meeting, attended by executive committee members and district secretaries, passed many resolutions, including one naming Vijay as the party’s Chief Ministerial candidate for the upcoming Assembly polls in 2026. The committee also empowered him to make decisions regarding alliances.Further, the committee passed a resolution to launch a membership drive in the second week of July and conduct the party’s second state conference either in Tiruchy or Madurai.
Vijay is also scheduled to begin a public outreach tour from September to December across the state.
Criticising the DMK government over the Parandur airport project, Vijay questioned the displacement of hundreds of farming families and demanded that Chief Minister MK Stalin meet the affected residents. “You call yourself the people's Chief Minister. Then why haven't you met the people of Parandur?” he asked.
Reiterating his party’s stance that they are not against the construction of a new airport, he said it should not come up at the cost of livelihood of thousands of families dependent on agriculture and destruction of waterbodies. He warned that he would gather people from Parandur and bring them to the Secretariat to meet the CM if the government continued to take no action in this regard.