The VCK that patched up with its coalition leader, the DMK, when its leaders called on Chief Minister M K Stalin on September 16 after pushing the ties between the two parties to the precipice with its President Thol Thirumavalavan making scathing attacks on the ruling party and also a veiled demand for share in power when Stalin was in the US, has seemingly gone back to square one. Though Thirumavalvan had changed his demand for prohibition in the State, citing an election promise of the DMK, and called for a national policy on prohibition after meeting Stalin on September 16, thus putting at rest speculations of the party’s plan to walk out of the State’s DMK-led ruling alliance, a latest interview by the party’s deputy general secretary Aadhav Arjuna to an YouTube channel has reviewed the controversy. In the interview that went viral, Arjuna, who joined the VCK recently but is said to be the person behind the organization of the party’s massive conference at Trichy in January, makes a straight attack on State Minister for Youth Affairs, Udhayanidhi Stalin, saying that he was aspiring to become the Deputy Chief Minister though he came into politics after a long time in cinema.
He also said that the DMK would not be able to win elections in the northern Tamil Nadu without the VCK’s support and claimed that he addressed the sentiments of the grassroots level workers of his party, who had already started questioning when their leader would become the Chief Minister. .
