Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam chief MK Stalin on Sunday claimed that the actor-politician Vijay’s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam government in Tamil Nadu may not survive beyond three months, PTI reported.
Speaking at an event where former Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi MLA Panaiyur Babu and his supporters joined the DMK, the former chief minister said: “When [the new government] assumed office, I had said I would not criticise it for six months. However, there is now fear that circumstances may force me to speak sooner.”
“Many people are already talking about it, and criticism is mounting,” PTI quoted Stalin as saying. “It is not a question of six months, five months or even four months. The question now is whether this government will last even three months.”
This came a day after he claimed that his party had allowed its alliance partners to support the TVK with the “sole intention of preventing the imposition of president’s rule in the state”.
Stalin said that he had not opposed the allies’ decision because he believed that president’s rule “could have paved the way for BJP [Bharatiya Janata Party] rule” in Tamil Nadu.
“But soon, we must take a pledge to bring down the TVK government,” he had said at an event in Chennai where he welcomed former All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam members into the DMK.
While the TVK emerged as the single-largest party in the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, it had fallen short of the majority mark by 10 seats. It formed the government with the support of the Congress, the Communist Party of India and the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi and the Indian Union Muslim League.
Edited by Nachiket Deuskar.
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