AMMK chief TTV Dhinakaran on Thursday attempted to punch holes in Chief Minister Vijay’s larger-than-life persona, bolstered by his illustrious film career, by calling him a “villain in real life”. The former MP waded into the row triggered by the TVK chief’s gesture in the Tamil Nadu Assembly — which the DMK construed as a slight at MK Stalin’s jaw injury — and said his “body language and words” suggested that “he’s clearly not a good man”.
I want to make it known that it was not in any way intentional,” he said on Wednesday. “Vijay is a hero only in films. “My body language was an accidental expression.
The chief minister contributed to this narrative as he made fun of the DMK chief’s jaw injury, which he had sustained during his incarceration in 1976.
Dhinakaran’s reaction to Vijay’s gesture — which he denied making — was sharper than even those of DMK leaders, as he called the chief minister “self-centred” and an “evil man”. In real life, he is a big villain,” he said.
“We faced several forms of cruelty in prison. They put us with lepers. Ten of us were locked up in a small room. We had one urinal in the cell. There was a stench all around, and we had to sleep there anyway,” the former chief minister recalled.
In a video statement, he reminisced about his arrest in 1976, after the Karunanidhi-led DMK government was dismissed during the Emergency (1975-77).
