Vijay mocks DMK, says ‘publicity-model sarkar is now sorry-model sarkar’

Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam chief and actor Vijay slammed the DMK regime over “custodial deaths” at a protest rally on Sunday (July 13) which was attended by several of the victims’ family members.

The actor-politician alleged that the “empty, publicity-model DMK sarkar has now got transformed into a sorry model sarkar”.

For the uninformed, Sarkar (government) is a popular Vijay-starrer movie that was released in 2018.

‘Did Stalin say sorry to everyone?’

Addressing the TVK protest rally, Vijay said the custodial torture victim Ajith Kumar hailed from an ordinary family and the chief minister apologised to the victim’s family and it is appropriate.

But then, did “Stalin say sorry” to the families of all the 24 victims of alleged custodial torture (which resulted in deaths) during the DMK regime, since 2021, the TVK chief asked.

“Please say sorry to them all; also, did you give solatium to the families of all the 24 victims? Please provide solatium to them as well,” he said.

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‘Hiding’ behind CBI

When the then AIADMK regime transferred the Sathankulam case (in which P Jeyaraj and his son J Benniks were allegedly tortured to death by police in 2020), Stalin had said that it was an insult to Tamil Nadu police, Vijay claimed.

The fledgling party’s chief wondered if the DMK government, which days ago transferred the Ajith Kumar custodial death case to the CBI, has not caused the same insult and added that both instances were only the same.

Further, Vijay asked why the DMK government was “hiding behind the CBI”, which happens to be “only the puppet of the RSS and the BJP”. It was only because his party, the TVK, had sought a court-monitored probe by a special investigation team that the DMK regime was “hiding” behind the Centre, he claimed.

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Questions galore

The court has questioned the state government on several cases of “atrocities”, including a Anna University girl student’s sexual assault and Ajith Kumar’s custodial torture and death.

“If the court has to intervene and ask questions for everything, then why are you there? What is the purpose of the government? And the office of the chief minister? Whatever may be the questions, there are not going to be any answers. The government may provide answers only if it had answers and it does not have any answers in this regard,” he alleged.

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No sorry, only justice

Clad in black, Vijay held a placard that read, “Sorry Vendam, Needhi Vendum (We want justice, not sorry).”

“The maximum reply from you is sorry and the empty, publicity-model DMK sarkar has now transformed into a sorry model sarkar,” he alleged, mocking the DMK government.

Before the end of the “inept DMK government’s tenure”, it has to set right the law-and-order situation. Else, by joining forces with the people, “we will make you do it”, Vijay said.

(With agency inputs)