Stalin attacks Vijay's TVK over anti-paper leak rally ban, alleges BJP collusion
DMK president MK Stalin on Thursday attacked the ruling TVK government over the denial of police permission to the Dravidar Kazhagam's statewide campaign against NEET
DMK president MK Stalin on Thursday attacked the ruling TVK government over the denial of police permission to the Dravidar Kazhagam's statewide campaign against NEET and reservation for the economically weaker sections. He alleged that the TVK had colluded with the BJP and urged the government to allow the proposed campaign. The DK, which had planned a two-wheeler rally from July 30 to August 2, 2026, said it was postponing the campaign and would deal with the issue legally instead of violating the ban. DK president K Veeramani appealed for calm and said no government in Tamil Nadu had so far denied permission for such social justice campaigns.
Read Full Story In a statement, Stalin claimed that, more than the BJP-led Union government, it was the TVK regime that was "panicking" at the sight of protests against NEET and the EWS quota. He asked, "Claiming Periyar (EV Ramasamy) as its ideological leader, why has the TVK government deployed police forces right inside Periyar Thidal (Periyar grounds, the DK headquarters in Chennai)?" Stalin said the DK, the parent organisation of Dravidian outfits, had conducted such protests in the past in a peaceful, righteous and dignified manner. Demanding to know why permission had been denied for the Dravidar Kazhagam's two-wheeler rally, he asked, "Yielding to whose pressure is this being done?" He also said, "Banning the campaign of such a movement is strongly condemnable, it has now become certain through this that mixing red and yellow yields saffron; dropping the politics of repression, the TVK government must grant appropriate permission for the DK's campaign." Veeramani said that although the anti-NEET and anti-EWS quota campaign could have been held by defying the ban, the organisation had chosen to pursue the matter legally.
"Comrades be calm," he said while announcing the postponement. The campaign, now deferred, had been planned by the DK's youth, student and women's wings to urge the Centre to scrap NEET and the EWS quota. In sum,
Stalin accused the TVK government of suppressing a social justice campaign and acting in concert with the BJP, while the DK postponed its rally and said it would challenge the denial of permission through legal means. Ends
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