Maduranthakam: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) General Secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami during an election campaign roadshow for party candidate Kanitha Sampath ahead of the Madurantakam byelection, on Saturday, Oct 3, 2026
Dharapuram: AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami said TVK was afraid of defeat in the bypoll and hence enacted a drama to create sympathy among voters. They are afraid of defeat in Dharapuram and Madurantakam,” he said during his campaign at Dharapuram. He said that when he was CM, Vijay had once gone to meet him and waited three hours at his home. He said Vijay sought his intervention when one of his films faced release hurdles.
“At a TVK campaign, a candidate wept and chief minister C Joseph Vijay consoled her. This is more dramatic than cinema. Who are they trying to fool with this drama? Palaniswami alleged that Vijay lacked gratitude.
I established a govt medical college hospital in Tirupur at ₹400 crore and a veterinary research centre in Udumalpet at ₹125 crore,” he said. “We introduced Amma Mini Clinics, but neither the previous govt nor this one has paid attention to them.
He deliberately avoided naming our party in his speeches, dismissing us as ‘matrum palar’ (others),” he said. On the other hand, AIADMK executed multiple welfare projects, Palaniswami said. “TVK has joined INDIA bloc,” TNCC president Manickam Tagore said, describing it as a “very historic day” for the alliance. He said the meeting adopted a resolution welcoming Vijay’s decision.
“AIADMK stood by him then, but he lacks basic gratitude. He alleged that TVK govt had not only failed to fulfil poll promises, but had also mismanaged the economy and stunted welfare programmes. DMK had exited INDIA after Congress joined the TVK-led govt after the TN assembly elections this year.
Earlier reporting noted: TVK general secretary (election management) and minister Aadhav Arjuna and finance minister Marie Wilson represented the party at the two-hour meeting. Earlier reporting noted: The alliance decided to hold district-level demonstrations against chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over the special intensive revision of electoral rolls. Earlier reporting noted: CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay-led TVK on Saturday formalised its entry into INDIA bloc, with two of its ministers attending a meeting of the alliance at the Congress headquarters, Sathyamurthy Bhavan, in Chennai.