Chennai: Actor Rajinikanth on Sunday clarified that his long-standing private friendship with DMK chief MK Stalin goes past politics, denying speculations that he’s sad with TVK founder C. Joseph Vijay’s victory within the just lately concluded Tamil Nadu elections.
Addressing the media right here, Rajinikanth mentioned Stalin’s defeat in Kolathur was unlucky and TVK’s victory introduced an finish to the duopoly of the 2 main Dravidian events.
“As a result of for those who do not reply to criticism, it is going to be accepted as fact,” he mentioned.
He added, “Rajini just isn’t an affordable or low-level one who talks unnecessarily about different issues.As quickly as he turned the Prime Minister,… (Vijay) gained, so I instantly congratulated him. I’m not jealous of Vijay, there may be an age distinction of 28 years between us.
“Why am I jealous of him changing into the Chief Minister? I left politics a few years in the past and he ran towards the 2 main events within the state. Vijay has earned his personal status by taking over the 2 main events.”
The actor additionally denied speculations that he was concerned in talks between the DMK and AIADMK earlier than forming the federal government. “Plenty of allegations have surfaced that I used to be attempting to convey collectively the 2 main political events to cease Mr. Vijay from changing into the chief minister. Mr. Rajinikanth just isn’t the type of one who would go into such talks to do one thing so low-cost,” he mentioned.
Rajinikanth additionally mentioned that TVK’s electoral success in its maiden election got here as a shock to him.
Concerning the rationale why he didn’t attend the swearing-in ceremony of Mr. Vijay, he mentioned that he had by no means attended the swearing-in ceremony of a state chief minister previously.
Whereas congratulating the brand new chief minister, Rajinikanth warned Vijay’s followers and TVK workers. “No matter they do, it can finally have an effect on Vijay.”
Mr. Rajinikanth’s assembly with Stalin after the DMK’s election defeat sparked a heated debate on-line, with some accusing him of backchannel political involvement and dissatisfaction with Mr. Vijay’s success.
Rajinikanth’s rationalization seems to be an try and put an finish to such hypothesis.
That is an up to date model of the report
(Edited by Amrutanshu Arora)
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