Overview
- TVK chief Vijay, who visited the Tamil Nadu DGP on Thursday, filed a written complaint seeking strict action against V. Ponraj for calling his party’s women supporters a “mob of prostitutes.”
- Vijay posted a statement accusing the DMK government of tolerating such speech and warning of a backlash from women voters in the 2026 Assembly elections set for April 23.
- Ponraj is a former adviser to late President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and a political commentator, and reports note he is not a DMK member even as some coverage describes him as a DMK supporter and MNM worker.
- TVK cadres held protests in several parts of Tamil Nadu demanding arrests, and no police action had been reported by Friday morning.
- The rivalry deepened as actor Ranjana Natchiyaar, now with the DMK, filed a separate police complaint alleging online abuse by TVK supporters after she quit Vijay’s party.