Ilayathalapathy Vijay enters politics

Ilayathalapathy Vijay is entering Tamil Nadu politics in a big way. Vijay who had launched his Vijay Makkal Iyakkam (VMI) on his birthday in Chennai, later held a meet in Pudukottai.

On Sunday, Vinayaga Chathurthi day (August 23), Vijay and his VMI with the tacit support of ruling Congress party in Puducherry (Pondycherry), held a huge public meeting, which was attended by Puducherry Chief Minister V.Vaidyalingam.

The meeting was organized by Vijay’s Pudhucherry fan club president and Puducherry Munetra Congress MLA, N.Anand. Nearly 50,000 people crowded the Anna Thidal (stadium) in the heart of the city. For poor and needy students, he started computer training centers and distributed cycles.

Vijay made a short speech in which he urged the youth to take up social work and help the poor and needy. N.Anand, local MLA urged the crowd to ask- “Why Vijay can’t enter politics?”

Vijay’s carefully worded reply was, “I will never say that I have no desire for politics, but it is like a big ocean. I feel that one has to go step by step and study the issue before plunging into it.”

Vijays’s fans went delirious when he said a typical punchline, when a student asked him whether he will enter politics : “Ithu Vere Vazhi, Varuvendi Nerathu Varum! (It’s a different route, I will come at the right time).

He then looks up at the huge crowd and in filmi style nods his head and asks- “OK?”, which resulted in thunderous ovation.