Vijay named as TVK's CM face for upcoming Tamil Nadu polls

Vijay has cleared the party will not ally with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the upcoming elections.

"You can’t oppose or humiliate Anna and Periyar and win in Tamil Nadu. TVK is not DMK or AIADMK to join hands with BJP," said Vijay as quoted by India Today.

The next state conference of the party will be held in August.

The next strategies will be decided in the conference.

Meanwhile, the TVK has demanded the Centre should retrieve the Katchatheevu island, which was handed over to Sri Lanka during the Indira Gandhi regime.

Prior to the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had raised the issue and lashed out at the DMK and Congress for "keeping people of Tamil Nadu in the dark".

Modi had said, "Congress and DMK have kept the people of Tamil Nadu in the dark. They callously gave away the Katchatheevu island to Sri Lanka and meted out injustice to our fishermen.

"The NDA government has been continuously getting our fishermen released and getting them back home."

"DMK and Congress have not only committed sin to the fishermen but to the entire country," the Prime Minister added.

Tamil Nadu is already on boil over the language row with the ruling DMK-Congress opposing the Centre's three language policy.

Slamming the new education policy, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin said, "The National Education Policy is not education policy... it is a saffronisation policy."

"The policy was not created to develop India... but to develop Hindi. We are opposing this policy as it will completely destroy the Tamil Nadu education system," he said.

The DMK, and its ally, Congress, have argued that Tamil Nadu, the second-largest state economy, has flourished under a two-language system that teaches Tamil and English.

The country's ruling party BJP said no student will be forced to learn Hindi as the third language and has counter-accused the DMK of politicising the language issue ahead of next year's assembly election.