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[dinesh @dinustar]

Anirudh Ravichander Hukum Tour promises to be an unforgettable experience:) thanks for everything and had a great time during this stay 🙂 I will forever cherish this memory:)
#Anirudh #hukumtour @anirudhofficial
@vijay @Karthikravivarm @RIAZtheboss

[Ayyappan @Ayyappan_1504]

CHIEF MINISTER VIJAY AURA 🥶

[RamKumarr @ramk8060]

❤️❤️

[dinesh @dinustar]

@storcube @MacroMatrix1 @CMOTamilnadu @CTR_Nirmalkumar @TVKVijayHQ @TVKPartyHQ @CMOTamilnadu @ndtv @Akshita_N

[Srivatsan Venkatesan @storcube]

Attn: @CMOTamilnadu @CTR_Nirmalkumar

Chennai. Last night. It rained for a while. Power went off. It came back at 9 AM.

Twelve hours.

I called the section office. I called the AE. Multiple times. Nobody picked up. No SMS. No estimated restoration time. No update. Just a family sitting in the dark waiting for someone to answer a phone.

I want to be clear about what I am not saying. I am not saying it should never fail. Rain happens. Transformers fail. Feeders trip. Things break.

What I am saying is this. Twelve hours with no information and no human being on the other end of a phone line is not a weather event. It is an sytem failure.

In all the years I have lived here, twelve hours in the dark meant a cyclone. It meant the whole of Chennai was under water and you did not expect anyone to come. Last night it meant a few hours of rain on an ordinary Wednesday.

That is the part that should worry all of us. Not the outage. The lowering of the bar for what causes one.

For two decades we priced electricity below what it costs to deliver, and we funded the gap with debt instead of honesty. Every government did it. DMK did it. AIADMK did it. Both sides called it welfare and both sides knew what it was. The bill did not disappear. It just moved. It is now sitting inside forty-year-old distribution transformers in Chennai that give up the moment it rains.

A transformer does not know which party signed the subsidy order. It only knows whether it was maintained.

So, CM @CMOTamilnadu, this is what I want to put in front of you.

Yesterday you rode the metro. You bought your own ticket. You sat in the Operations Control Centre and asked how train movements are monitored. You stood on the Kathipara bridge at 101 feet and asked about construction methodology. You ran the driverless line yourself before signing off on it. That is genuinely hands-on and I do not say that lightly.

But the metro is the upgrade. Electricity is the floor.

A city can survive a delayed metro corridor. It cannot survive an unreliable grid. Every single thing you are building sits on top of power. The hospital. The school. The IT corridor you want investors in. The small shop with a fridge. The woman on a home oxygen concentrator in Pallikaranai. The kid writing exams next.

Nobody is going to ride a driverless train home to a house with no power.

Last night the metro had a Chief Minister in its control room. The distribution network had a phone that rang out.

I am not asking you to come to my street. I am asking whether electricity distribution gets treated as what it actually is, which is the primary public service in this state, not the department nobody wants to hold.

And here is the specific thing I want an answer on.

When your government explains last night, there are only two answers available.

The first one is the one we have heard for fifteen years. A transformer fault. A localised issue. A few streets, not the whole division. Heavy rain. Teams were deployed. Supply has been restored. Every government has given us that answer, and every government meant it, and nothing changed.

The second answer is harder to say out loud. That the distribution network in this city was starved of investment for more than a decade because nobody wanted to price power honestly. That the failure is structural, it was built deliberately, and it will take money and political pain to undo. And here is the plan and the timeline.

The first answer is management. The second one is reform.

I have no doubt about your intent. None. I think you actually want to fix this.

But intent is not a system. And the system is bigger than any one person in it.

Ninety days of good intentions cannot outrun twenty years of compounding. The only thing that beats compounding is a mechanism. So I am asking for mechanisms, not assurances. Three of them. None of them cost political capital.

Every government inherits a broken system and promises to fix it. Then the political cost of fixing it turns out to be higher than the political cost of managing it. So they manage it, and hand it to the next one. That is the machine. That is how a state with our tax base ends up with a grid that fails on a wet Wednesday.

You came in saying you would break that machine.

So which answer are we getting? The transformer fault, or the truth?

One more thing.

We grew up knowing Chennai as one of India's four metros. Today, be honest about where we stand. Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune all pulling ahead. Chennai is sliding.

Quality of life is not metro rail selfies. It is roads that do not flood in October. It is power that stays on when it rains. It is a phone that gets answered at midnight.

We are chasing ribbon-cutting infrastructure while the basics rot. And here is what keeps me up. Last night was light rain in July. The real rains hit in three months. If this is what a Wednesday drizzle does to the grid, what happens in November?

Is last night the teaser for what Chennai should expect when the northeast monsoon actually arrives?

I am not asking as someone who votes for or against you. I am asking as someone in Chennai who sat in the dark for twelve hours and could not get anyone on the phone.

@TANGEDCO_Offcl

[dinesh @dinustar]

@jananiRchandran Experience ppl talking :D

[dinesh @dinustar]

❤️

[dinesh @dinustar]

@Kanthtweets @SriramMadras @rajinikanth @Suriya_offl @dhanushkraja @VijaySethuOffl @ActorMadhavan so he tried every possible way to stop him before with his tweeets and also statement against TVK for his own benefit and after the election as well he couldn’t show directly to ppl and let see how long he is hiding them

[dinesh @dinustar]

@Kanthtweets @SriramMadras @rajinikanth @Suriya_offl @dhanushkraja @VijaySethuOffl @ActorMadhavan He couldn’t enter politics in 1996. After 2016, he felt there was an opportunity, but after Stalin won 40/40, he backed off, citing COVID despite earlier saying he’d give his life for his fans, and continued acting in films. Now, he simply can’t digest Vijay’s rise

[dinesh @dinustar]

@Kanthtweets @SriramMadras @rajinikanth @Suriya_offl @dhanushkraja @VijaySethuOffl @ActorMadhavan 😂

[dinesh @dinustar]

@tamiltalkies 🤣🤣

[dinesh @dinustar]

@SriramMadras Not everyone knows how to play, and that’s okay. What’s not okay is underestimating a woman and making fun of her.

[dinesh @dinustar]

@SriramMadras @rajinikanth @Suriya_offl @dhanushkraja @VijaySethuOffl @ActorMadhavan Meeting the person in power doesn’t define a person’s dignity or integrity.

[Rahul Kanwal @rahulkanwal]

Fascinating meeting with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister @actorvijay.

The @TVKVijayHQ government is saying all the right things on fighting corruption, governance and welfare. The real test is whether that intent can transform the administrative culture and deliver measurable change.

The biggest difference from our conversations before the election wasn’t what Vijay said, but how he said it. The uncertainty of a challenger has given way to the assurance of someone entrusted with governing.

We also discussed Jana Nayagan. Vijay remains convinced the film was integral to communicating his political vision and spoke of his disappointment that it couldn’t be released before the election as planned.

Tamil Nadu’s governance baseline is already high. This government will ultimately be judged by outcomes—and whether the everyday corruption that affects ordinary citizens actually comes down.

@tvkvellum

#TamilNadu #TVK

[Vasudha Venugopal @Vasudha156]

Always a pleasure to meet the CM of Tamil Nadu, Joseph Vijay. Had an insightful conversation on his vision for the State.

[dinesh @dinustar]

@loveXwarred lol 😂

[dinesh @dinustar]

@Riyashaishere PM??

[Anirudh Ravichander @anirudhofficial]

It has been a thoroughly amazing and emotional journey with you through JanaNayagan, Leo, Beast, Master and Kaththi 📈
Thank you @actorvijay sir for the unlimited trust and memories that I will cherish forever 🤗
The music lives on ❤️

[dinesh @dinustar]

@____Udhaya____ @TTVDhinakaran @martin_leema @TVKVijayHQ @DrSharmila15 🤣🤣🤣

[dinesh @dinustar]

@NaziaFarheen84 You mean @arivalayam ?