TN Elections: Captain’s Campaign

All throughout this campaign, Vijayakanth has been taking a dig only at the DMK front. This gave way to rumours that Captain might join the ADMK camp. Although there are no indications on this, one can’t rule out last minute realignments in the poll line-up.

Ganesh Nadar, a Rediff columnist, happened to witness one such poll campaign of Vijayakanth and he writes about the general feelings of the people who had come to see the actor-turned-politician.

Then he arrived. A huge crowd gathered. Prabhakaran remarked ' It looks like Amma is here. Only she could attract such a large crowd'. Another Amma supporter added ' You cant compare this man to Amma'. A third remarked ' Amma translates to votes, this man's party will loose its deposit in all places, these people are here because he is a film star'.

Vijaykanth spoke for almost half an hour. He attacked the DMK saying that they were a rich party. They had TV channels, FM radio, newspapers and magazines to propagate their views. He was a poor man and had only the people's support.

One wit remarked 'After this election you will be poor'.