This is the contrast between campaign rhetoric and administrative reality.
You repeatedly claimed that Tamil Nadu was being misgoverned by DMK. Yet today at the NITI Aayog meeting, you proudly point out that Tamil Nadu is India's second-largest economy and contributes 42% of India's women workforce.
You also urged the Union Government to release the pending Samagra Shiksha funds without linking them to the three-language policy. That is exactly what MKS did.
Back then, you mocked that the funds were not coming because the DMK had failed to secure them. Now that you are the CM, why not simply bring the funds back with you from Delhi?
Now you realise that a Chief Minister can demand, argue and insist, but cannot pull money out of the Union Government's pocket by force?
Will you apologise? @TVKVijayHQ
Till date I have not accepted anything Mr. Raja has said or spoken.
But this time I am left with no other choice coz whatever questions he has asked here is 100% logical and valid.
Any answers from the TVK team?
I've already retweeted @Options_IndiaAB post.
Since I want this to reach lot of people, posting it separately too.
Here is the post:
I recently spent 2 weeks in China.
6 cities: Shanghai, Beijing, Xi’an, Zhangjiajie, Chongqing and Chengdu.
I went there with curiosity.
Like many Indians, I had heard a lot about China through media, social media and conversations. I expected to see progress, maybe discover some business ideas, and understand what the country is actually building.
I came back with a very uncomfortable feeling.
Not because I found a business idea for myself.
But because I saw 100 things that governments can do when infrastructure, tourism, transport, urban planning and civic systems are treated seriously.
I travelled within China by flights, trains, cars and local transport. The infrastructure was honestly stunning.
Clean cities. Smooth roads. High-speed trains. Well-managed traffic. Public spaces that actually feel designed for people. Tourist destinations that are built, maintained and promoted like national assets.
And then I kept thinking about India.
We keep comparing ourselves to China. Our media keeps telling us how India is catching up, how China is restrictive, how we are better in so many ways.
After spending time there and speaking to people, I realised how much of that narrative is just comfort food.
China is not perfect. No country is.
But on infrastructure, execution, tourism, civic discipline and quality of urban life, they are not 5 years ahead of us.
They are decades ahead.
The saddest part for me was the currency.
Everything felt expensive. Not because China was insanely expensive, but because the rupee has weakened so much that even normal spending starts feeling heavy. As an Indian taxpayer, that genuinely hurt.
We pay taxes. We work hard. We talk about becoming a global power.
But where is the quality of life?
Where is the civic sense?
Where is the infrastructure that makes daily life easier?
Where is the tourism vision beyond religious tourism?
I met travellers from other countries who were excited to visit China because they wanted to see its progress. When I asked about India, many had no real desire to visit. Not out of hate. India simply was not on their aspirational travel list.
That should bother us.
Even the so-called “closed internet” surprised me. We are told people there are missing out because they don’t use Google, Instagram, WhatsApp or Facebook.
But China has built its own digital ecosystem. Payments, maps, transport, messaging, shopping, everything works inside their own infrastructure. People did not seem to feel deprived. They seemed adapted.
Again, this is not a hate post.
I love India. That is exactly why this trip bothered me.
Patriotism cannot only be about saying we are great.
Real patriotism is having the courage to admit where we are falling behind.
China made me realise one thing very clearly:
India’s potential is not the problem.
Execution is.
And unless we stop comforting ourselves with comparisons and start demanding better infrastructure, better governance, better tourism, cleaner cities and a higher quality of life, we will keep celebrating the idea of progress instead of actually living it.
The allegation regarding a tender being floated and closed within a single day, and the subsequent withdrawal of the tender along with the suspension of officials following public scrutiny, is worth noting.
It was the DMK Government led by Thiru. @mkstalin that, through the 2022–23 Budget presented by then Finance Minister Dr. @ptrmadurai, announced mandatory e-procurement for all government procurements from 01.04.2023 onwards. This was subsequently operationalised through https://t.co/PnKFJzoJcj.93 dated 30.03.2023, amending the Tamil Nadu Transparency in Tenders Rules.
This episode also underlines the importance of the systemic reforms and transparent governance introduced by the DMK Government.
— Admin Team
This is the screen recording of our audience demographic which we have shared with media before our account was hacked.
More than 94% of the audience is from India.
Why is a Union Minister @KirenRijiju labelling Indian youth as Pakistani?
The government has taken down our iconic website - https://t.co/ELmb4ZlEed.
10 Lakh cockroaches had signed up on our website has members.
6 Lakh cockroaches had signed a petition to demand the resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan.
Why is the government so scared of cockroaches? But this dictatorial behaviour is opening the eyes of India's youth. Our only crime is we were demanding a better future for ourselves.
But you can't get rid of us that easily. We’re working on a new home right now. Cockroaches never die. 🪳
Networth Increase in Last 12 Year
Ambani = +540%
Adani = +1500%
Is Midlle class income increase by even 50% In last 12 Years ???
Modi goverment is Anti Middle Class
Ambani- Adani ka saath
Ambani- Adani ka Vikas
When there is nothing to hide, there is nothing to fear.
What happens to India’s image when the world sees a compromised PM panic and run from a few questions?
Feel the difference…
Udhayanidhi Stalin ate the same meal served to students when he was a minister.
Current minister Aadhav Arjuna avoids the food served to students and chooses bread instead.
NEET के 22 लाख बच्चों के साथ धोखा हुआ है। पर मोदी जी एक शब्द भी नहीं बोल रहे।
धर्मेंद्र प्रधान जी को अभी हटाइए, या जवाबदेही ख़ुद लीजिए।
Modi ji, SACK Dharmendra Pradhan ji NOW.
What we feared is happening !
And we MUST NOT allow it !
Tamil Nadu has reportedly lost the AMCA flight testing and integration project despite offering what the story itself describes as technically superior infrastructure conditions.
The report clearly states that the previous government under former CM @MKStalin had been in talks with DRDO for three years to anchor the project in Hosur. The DMK government offered 100 acres free of cost and proposed a 3.5 km runway at Hosur airport, making it strategically closer to ADA Bengaluru.
*Then what happened?*
The story itself uses the phrase “political considerations”. !!!
What political considerations?
How can strategic national defence investments be decided on political grounds?
This shift is grossly unfair to Tamil Nadu and deeply damaging to the credibility of cooperative #federalism.
I took several meetings on this single project and our team worked extremely hard over the last 3 years for this project and it personally deeply hurts to see this crucial project being shifted.
The present location is also not technically superior to the one that we offered in TN ! The union govt owes the people of Tamil Nadu an explanation.
One should also understand that a change in government should not matter with projects of such importance especially when Tamil Nadu is known for its policy continuity ! Am sure that the present dispensation will ensure the same.
Tamil Nadu cannot afford any drift at this moment.The state needs an agile and astute Minister for Industries immediately to aggressively pursue and protect strategic investments.
I also request Honourable @CMOTamilnadu Thiru. C.Joseph Vijay to personally step in on this issue at the earliest ! He must urgently write to the @PMOIndia and Honourable Minister for Defence Thiru @rajnathsingh explaining our location, manpower and infrastructural superiority.
Tamil Nadu must continue the strong industrial work done over the past 5 years and fight for every strategic investment that rightfully belongs here.
#InvestInTN #DravidianModel
Fake News Peddlers in India !!
Silent on Manipur
Silent on NEET-UG Paper leaks
Silent on Bridge collapse
Silent on Rupee fall
Silent on Inflation
Silent on Ceasefire
Silent on attacks on Tribals
Silent on Corruption
Silent on Unemployment
Silent on Foreign policy collapse.....
Silent on black money
Joseph Vijay’s government has already taken 4 U-turns in just 5 days 😭😹
1 - Appointed his astrologer as OSD, then reversed the decision within 24 hours under opposition pressure.
2 - Stayed silent when Udhayanidhi Stalin made controversial remarks on Sanatana Dharma, but now his own minister Atharva Arjuna says those comments were wrong.
3 - His party claimed they would not take support from any NDA ally, but later took support from 25 AIADMK MLAs.
4 - Promised ₹2500 for women, but now even the existing ₹1000 scheme is being “restructured” and delayed. 😭
Vijay Joseph is just the Arvind Kejriwal of Tamil Nadu 😹