Popular actor and president of the Tamizhaga Vetri Kazhagam (TVK) Vijay is set to formally launch his political party, at a grand conference in Tamil Nadu's Vikravandi later today. Political and social commentators believe this is his attempt to turn an idea that originated as a bid to fill the political vacuum left by the deaths of J Jayalalithaa and M Karunanidhi into reality.
Vijay, declared the formation of his party in February this year and in September, he had announced that the Election Commission had duly registered his party. He had expressed confidence that his party would emerge as the primary political force in Tamil Nadu.
The event, later today, reportedly will include cultural programmes, speeches by key functionaries, and Vijay’s presidential address along with the release of party’s declaration of its principles as per the tentative schedule. Official information on the event schedule had not been shared with the media as of Saturday night.
Writing to office-bearers and party workers on October 20 ahead of TVK's first state conference, Vijay exhorted his cadres to follow the principle of 'Kadami, Kanniyam, Kattuppadu,' which is 'duty, dignity and discipline.' Success and failures alone are not the yardstick in politics and it is all about commitment to ideology. "It is not our job to engage in jugglery of words. As far as we are concerned, our political mother tongue is the language of work/action," he told his party cadres.
He expressed confidence that they will leave a strong impression among people that the TVK workers are insightful in politics, including through their work for the maiden state conference. Vijay requested pregnant women, school children, those who are ill and the elderly to avoid taking part in the state conference.
The TVK chief said the cadres, during their journey to the state meet and on their return home, should follow orderly behaviour, in sync with political discipline, and also stick to traffic rules. 'The cadres should be model for others,' he urged.Last month, Vijay had said that icons to be followed by the TVK, as part of its core ideology, would be unveiled at the state meeting, the first such event.
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