Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) chief and actor Vijay addresses a crowd in Nagapattinam district. File | Photo Credit: M. Moorthy
The petitioner, Desiya Makkal Sakthi Katchi (DMSK), headed by its president M.L. Ravi, has urged the High Court to allow it to be included as one of many events to a petition filed by the TVK in opposition to the “onerous” circumstances being imposed by the Tamil Nadu police on Mr. Vijay’s marketing campaign throughout the State, in order that it might additionally help the court docket.
The social gathering, by means of its counsel A.P. Suryaprakasam, contended that since 2016, it has been striving to mirror the issues confronted by the poor and downtrodden, whose voice seldom will get heard by these in energy.
Alleging that well-established political events had amassed big wealth after having fun with energy on the Centre in addition to within the State on a number of events, it mentioned that these events at all times try and create hurdles for smaller events that attempt to expose their corrupt deeds.
“They act as a giant banyan tree beneath which no small vegetation can survive. At each obtainable alternative, they attempt to stop the opposition political social gathering from criticising the ruling social gathering and the Ministers. They abuse the official equipment to behave as per their whims and fancies,” the affidavit mentioned.
The petitioner alleged that the TVK was a budding political social gathering that was being threatened instantly and not directly by means of colourable train of energy. “The ruling social gathering in Tamil Nadu is utilizing its may to strangle the voice of the opposition and thereby trying to crush democracy,” he alleged.
Claiming that the concentrating on of the TVK by singling it out may very well be proved by means of the “oppressive” circumstances being imposed on its chief, it mentioned, including that Mr. Vijay was not being allowed to talk for greater than half-hour in any assembly and a cap was being mounted on the quantity of people that might collect for his marketing campaign.
“The Tamil Nadu Police is performing like a wing of the ruling DMK they usually don’t undertake the identical yardstick for ruling social gathering conferences. Dissent is the essence of democracy and the act of the police in imposing onerous circumstances on TVK social gathering alone… shouldn’t be inspired because it may very well be performed to others too sooner or later,” the affidavit learn.
The DSMK urged the court docket to permit it to get impleaded within the TVK’s case in order that it might reveal how the court docket’s insistence on making warning deposits earlier than conducting public conferences, processions, and so forth could be detrimental to smaller political events, although it could not matter a lot to events with large amount of wealth.
Published – September 22, 2025 04:34 pm IST
