Let's be real for a second. NTK has candidates with cases. TVK has candidates with cases. DMK, AIADMK — same story. This isn't a party problem. This is a system problem. And yet we keep voting like it is a party problem. Here's what gets me: people in Tamil Nadu genuinely backed Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam — a party that literally didn't exist a few years ago — purely on the strength of what it stood for (or who stood for it). That shows people can vote for something new. That shows the voter base isn't blindly loyal. The capacity for change is clearly there. So why can't a party like CPI(M) — with actual decades of grassroots work, a clear ideology, and documented policy positions — break through? Because we don't vote for policies. We vote for: Caste math Movie star vibes Freebies that show up before elections "At least they're better than the other guy" TVK broke through because of personality, not platform. That's not a win for progressive voting — that's just a new version of the same pattern. The criminal case issue is a symptom. The real disease is that we've never built a culture of issue-based voting. No one's asking candidates "what's your position on groundwater depletion in the delta districts?" We're asking "which side are you on?" Until voters start treating elections like hiring decisions — checking track record, demanding accountability, reading manifestos — the same types will keep winning. Just with different flags. Not blaming voters entirely. The system is designed to make informed voting hard. But we have to start somewhere.
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Do you know M. K. Stalin and how he got his position? First, he became a councillor, then mayor, followed by chief of DMK youth wing, and then chief of DMK. How many times did he go to jail for protests? I am not speaking for DMK because they have also made many mistakes.
But has Vijay ever come out of his Rolls-Royce and caravan? Has he ever gone to jail? He started his party only 2 years ago, right? Why didn’t he protest against the government?
Another thing I don’t like is that he keeps mentioning that he left his peak salary for public service. Once a man dedicates himself to public service, he shouldn’t keep repeating that. MGR nor Vijayakanth ever mentioned it like that.
He says he is going to bring change, but how, when his candidates are already from corrupted parties who have done the same things? And this is a serious issue—one of his candidates is a rapist who was released from jail for the election. This happened just before the announcement week; he was released within a week. Then how is he going to protect women? His fans are not even asking him.
Change should start from us. But still, he has all his properties, and foolish fans are wasting their one-day wages for him. We can see how many fans he has, and many of them must be educated. Why can’t he make them his candidates? Instead, he is selecting candidates who do caste politics in Erode, something already done by other parties.
And the senior politician K. A. Sengottaiyan is one of the main accused in the Vachathi case. If communists were not there, the condition would be even worse.
Where is the real change in government? He is doing the same as others. What is the difference between them? TVK and DMK election candidates of both parties have equal crime rates. In fact, the more serious cases are in TVK compared to DMK—this is a report from Times Now.
During his career, he may also have been involved in black money like others—filing cases for small car tax and making registrations in Pondicherry.
NTK voters can be proud that their party has zero crime-rate candidates.
I am not saying that he should not enter politics. But before saying something, we should think whether we are proper in that.
People—nothing is going to change in the state, whoever comes to power. People should think on their own, but they are easily brainwashed.
Communists in Tamil Nadu say they have no choice but to join an alliance with DMK to oppose BJP. They are people working on the ground for the public by opposing this alliance. They say they cannot get seats to oppose BJP on their own. Now some youngsters know about the party chief only after Vijay mentioned it. If not DMK, make communists a choice—they are also in Tamil Nadu.
People should be ashamed of this kind of DMK, TVK, AIADMK politics. Think on your own. If TVK was not there, would you vote for DMK or AIADMK?
Change will happen only if you change your thinking. Don’t let your mind be brainwashed.
I am looking forward to how he is going to deal with his corrupted candidates to stop corruption and other issues, as he is the one who said he would remove the existing bad government, yet he is continuing with the same type of members.
What of people we are
“Workers of the world have nothing to lose but their chains; workers of the world, unite.” — Karl Marx