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TVK passes 26 resolutions against Centre, DMK Govt | Latest news India
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TVK passes 26 resolutions against Centre, DMK Govt | Latest news India

Actor-turned-politician Vijay’s Tamizhaga Vetri Kazhagam (TVK) on Sunday passed 26 resolutions attacking the BJP-led Union government and the DMK-led state government on a number of issues. This comes a week after Vijay referred to the Bharatiya Janata Party as the ideological enemy of the TVK and the DMK as its political enemy.

Vijay (PTI)
Vijay (PTI)

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During the party’s executive committee meeting, TVK vowed to scrap the National Entrance Eligibility Test (NEET), condemned the one-nation, one-election policy, withdraw the Waqf Amendment Act and shut down run liquor shops state gradually. Vijay termed the “one nation, one election policy” as an “anti-democratic move” by the BJP-led central government that threatens democratic principles. Vijay chaired the committee meeting in Panaiyur in Chennai on Sunday.

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Reiterating the TVK’s demand to return education to the state list, the resolution said: “According to our demand for state autonomy policy, education belongs to the state list. If the Union government lists education to the state, the state government can revoke NEET on its own.”

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“This executive committee opposes the obstruction imposed by the Union government in this regard and also opposes the DMK state government for cheating the people of Tamil Nadu with false promises,” it said.

According to one of the resolutions, instead of addressing issues such as the sale of illicit liquor and the rise of drug addiction among the youth, the administration is prioritizing the interests of a few individuals. The committee also condemned the state government for recent hikes in electricity tariffs, milk prices and property taxes.

“Neither the Union Government nor the Governor has any right to interfere in Tamil language matters,” the resolution said. TVK will continue to campaign for the state’s dual language policy, English and Tamil, and be against the trilingual policy, the party said in its statement.

The party asserted the linguistic and cultural importance of the state. “Linguistic rights are the most important state rights,” the resolution states. “We would strongly oppose the three-language policy.” TVK has also asked the Union and state governments to drop the proposed greenfield airport at Parandur, supporting the protesters who are against the acquisition of more acres of agricultural land. It could increase flood risks in Chennai, TVK said.

During his conference last week on October 27, Vijay had declared that he would follow the Dravidian ideology. He told a massive gathering of over 200,000 people at the first state conference that his two enemies were – DMK and BJP.

Without naming the political parties, Vijay, who has a cult following in Tamil cinema, referred to the DMK as his “political enemy” and the BJP as his “ideological enemy”, while promising to fight corruption and communalism. He did not mention the opposition AIADMK in his hour-long speech.