Doesn’t Koodankulam have a
nuclear power plant, which has agitated locals and activists alike? DMDK chief
‘Captain’ Vijayakant doesn’t seem to think so. Why else would he keep referring
to it as the Koodankulam Thermal Power Plant at the ninth anniversary celebrations
of the party in Thoothukudi? (Sep 22, 2013)
Slip of the tongue? There
were more gems. Sample this: while referring to protests against a titanium di-oxide
plant promoted by Tata, he kept referring to it as Tata Nano. He went on to say
that 3,000 people would have got jobs had the ‘Tata Nano’ plant been set up in
Thoothukudi district.
Here’s another nugget. Former
Union minister and Madurai
strongman M K Alagiri has a sobriquet, ‘Anja Nenjan’. Everyone else in Tamil
Nadu knows about it, except perhaps Vijayakant. During his address, he chose to
refer to Alagari’s elder sibling M K Muthu as ‘Anja Nenjan’. Again, while
speaking about the sand mafia menace, he referred to Uttar Pradesh IAS officer
Durga Shakti Nagpal who fought it, as Durga Devi. Besides, he referred to S Vaikundarajan , promoter of VV Minerals, as V
Vaikundarajan.
Nobody dare correct him, as
he slapped party candidate A Bhaskaran in Dharmapuri in the run up to the 2011 Assembly
polls for having the guts to prompt him to say his correct name.
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