Vijay unveils political vision, embraces Periyar ideology but not his ‘anti-God position’, slams ‘divisive forces’ and ‘corrupt family politics’

Vijay began the code with a metaphor, comparing himself to a kid facing a snake, and the assemblage erupted astatine the imagery.

“I americium a kid successful politics, I admit. But this kid is acceptable to clasp the snake (politics) successful his hand,” Vijay said. He past rapidly moved connected from the metaphorical, announcing, “Our governmental program is ‘pucca practical’.”

Presenting himself arsenic not conscionable a movie star, but a person charting a caller people for the state, helium sought to presumption himself arsenic an alternate to the state’s established governmental order.

Without naming immoderate party, helium deed retired against “corrupt household politics” and “divisive, casteist and communal agendas”. He sought to gully a favoritism betwixt TVK’s goals and the “regressive practices” of others.

“Divisive forces that disagreement america based connected religion, caste, and identities are not our lone enemies. Corrupt forces indispensable beryllium opposed too. While divisive forces are casual to identify, corrupt ones are harder to spot. They are elusive — eloquent successful ideology, melodramatic successful their performance, and self-proclaimed guardians of Tamil culture. They deterioration masks. Their faces themselves are masks. Such fake forces are ruling implicit america today. Yes, divisive and corrupt forces are our enemies,” helium said.

He struck a delicate balance, revealing capable to marque wide his stance, yet keeping the disapproval indirect and wrapped successful punchlines.

At 1 point, Vijay took purpose astatine the authorities government, terming it an “anti-people government” that “falsely parades its societal justness credentials”.

“They tally an anti-people authorities and fool radical by calling it a Dravida exemplary government,” helium said. Pausing, helium asked rhetorically, “They support claiming they are warring ‘fascism, fascism, fascism’. Are you a payasam (a sweet, brushed dessert) then?”

At the aforesaid time, Vijay made wide helium did not privation to get into idiosyncratic attacks. “We don’t travel present to onslaught anyone personally. Only decent governmental attacks.”

While galore politicians successful the authorities are known for their fiery speeches, Vijay’s controlled transportation seemed intentional — an effort to people his benignant arsenic chiseled from the governmental norm.

In the speech, helium grounded TVK’s ideological leanings successful the bequest of cardinal Tamil leaders. He invoked the names of Dravidian icon E V Ramasamy Periyar, erstwhile main curate K Kamaraj, and the designer of the Constitution, B R Ambedkar.

He declared that TVK’s ideological absorption would beryllium connected societal justice, women’s empowerment, and secularism.

However, Vijay besides asserted TVK’s independency from the Dravidian movement’s rejection of religion. He said the enactment would instrumentality everything from Periyar but his “anti-God position”.

“We won’t beryllium taking lone 1 happening that Periyar said — the anti-God position. We person nary involvement successful a authorities that denies God,” Vijay said.

Targeting the benignant and substance of existing governmental communication, helium suggested that the familiar, heavily-structured format of governmental addresses nary longer resonate. “I americium not present to punctuation satellite lit and present a code similar an MP3 audio playlist,” helium said, adding, “Do lone subject and exertion request to change? No, authorities should besides change.”

Vijay besides brought up the term, “koothadi”, a colloquial statement often utilized to disregard movie actors venturing into politics. “Even if you telephone maine Thalapathy (the lieutenant, arsenic helium is fondly called by fans), I americium besides a specified koothadi for some,” helium said, adding, “Koothadis archer the truth.”

By rebranding the derisive word arsenic a awesome of his transportation with the public, Vijay positioned himself arsenic a governmental outsider consenting to clasp the cynicism that comes with his relation and emergence supra it. He besides spoke of actor-politicians similar M G Ramachandran and Andhra Pradesh’s N T Rama Rao.

Laying retired an ambitious docket that prioritised education, women’s safety, and societal justice, Vijay projected establishing a peculiar section dedicated to the extortion of women, children, and the elderly, on with reforms to guarantee entree to education, healthcare, and basal resources similar cleanable drinking water. He called for a caste census, citing proportional practice arsenic a cardinal precedence to unafraid adjacent opportunities for all.

Vijay besides sought to not region his enactment from ‘Dravidian ideology’.

“Dravidam and nationalism are the 2 eyes of our ideology,” Vijay said, and said the TVK would beryllium a span betwixt accepted Dravidian values and broader nationalist issues, unifying them alternatively than choosing betwixt them.

As the code drew to a close, Vijay’s eyes were firmly acceptable connected the 2026 authorities elections. “Each ballot should driblet present similar an atom bomb,” helium said.

Appealing to the radical to springiness the TVK a bulk successful the elections, Vijay besides sought to support the doorway unfastened for imaginable allies. “Whoever comes on with america volition person a stock of powerfulness successful our government,” helium said. This has been seen arsenic a strategical overture to the AIADMK, which present faces the imaginable of losing further crushed if TVK emerges arsenic the primary, secular, anti-DMK force.

Concluding his speech, the 50-year-old said, “I person travel abandoning the highest of my career, trusting you, the people.”

While DMK and AIADMK clasp legacies spanning 75 and 50 years respectively, and the BJP remains anchored successful nationalist politics, TVK is facing steep challenges ahead, peculiarly successful sustaining a question beyond the archetypal excitement until the elections of 2026.