Emerging out of the shadows after the Karur tragedy, which led to the death of 41 people, actor and Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) leader Vijay, on November 5, made his first public appearance at the party’s special general council meeting convened at a swanky private hotel on the scenic East Coast Road in Chennai. In his 14-minute-long speech, Vijay quoted the Supreme Court’s interim order transferring the enquiry into the Karur stampede to the CBI and accused chief minister M.K. Stalin of “narrow-minded” political attacks.

But all that said, the special general council meeting and Vijay’s speech argued strongly that the Karur tragedy was a “temporary setback”, and it was engineered by their political rivals. “When nature and god in the form of the people of Tamil Nadu stand with us, who

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