AMMK chief TTV Dhinakaran on Thursday attempted to punch holes in Chief Minister Vijay’s larger-than-life persona, bolstered by his illustrious film career, by calling him a “villain in real life”. The former MP waded into the row triggered by the TVK chief’s gesture in the Tamil Nadu Assembly — which the DMK construed as a slight at MK Stalin’s jaw injury — and said his “body language and words” suggested that “he’s clearly not a good man”.
“Vijay is a hero only in films.
Dhinakaran’s reaction to Vijay’s gesture — which he denied making — was sharper than even those of DMK leaders, as he called the chief minister “self-centred” and an “evil man”. In real life, he is a big villain,” he said.
I want to make it known that it was not in any way intentional,” he said on Wednesday. Ever since Vijay took over the reins of the state from MK Stalin after his party, TVK, made a stellar election debut, Tamil Nadu’s political narrative has devolved into a series of personal attacks. “My body language was an accidental expression.
The chief minister contributed to this narrative as he made fun of the DMK chief’s jaw injury, which he had sustained during his incarceration in 1976. In a video statement, he reminisced about his arrest in 1976, after the Karunanidhi-led DMK government was dismissed during the Emergency (1975-77).
