Auto Driver to MLA? Or just clever PR? K.V. Vijay Damu (TVK - Royapuram) campaigned as the humble “auto driver” who rose from the streets.
Beat bigwigs with 59k+ votes. But look at his official election affidavit: No auto-rickshaw listed anywhere in his assets.
Instead: Brand new Toyota Innova Crysta (Jan 2025) worth ₹20 LAKHS (TN 07 DM 2224)
Two Honda motorcycles/scooters (2023 & 2022) Total assets: just ₹28.9 lakh
Liabilities (loans): ₹0
Declared annual income: ₹0 (no ITR income shown) How does an “auto driver” with ZERO declared income & ZERO loans buy a ₹20 lakh Innova in Jan 2025?
“Auto consulting business” sounds nice…
but where’s the auto? People’s power or clever image makeover?
#VijayDamu #Royapuram #TVK #AutoDriverToMLA #TamilNaduElections2026 #AffidavitExposed
Whatever be the result on 4th May, whichever Govt comes to power must take up a political awareness program for our youth, a kind of mental detox. We have had so many videos of youngsters saying the most idiotic things. Last week a youngster at a media office asked me about TVK chances. When I said it wasn't high in terms of votes to seat conversion he said, "so what if he does not get enough votes all he needs is to win seats." After a pause he asked me are votes and seats connected? Can't you get seats without votes? This is not a joke. Seriously there is need for political awareness programs for our youth.
#TamilNaduAssemblyElections2026
When MS Dhoni was a Full time Captain for CSK
2008- Runners-up
2009- Semi-finalists
2010- Champions
2011- Champions
2012- Runners-up
2013- Runners-up
2014- Third
2015- Runners-up
2018- Champions
2019- Runners-up
2020- Seventh
2021- Champions
2023- Champions
#CSKvsPBKS
Sehwag on Finisher MS Dhoni :
- In PBKS vs RPSG match when 24 runs off 6 bowls required, I told everyone in dugout that Dhoni will finish this match everyone laughed at me but then Dhoni finishes it. 🥶🙌
https://t.co/6CbG1Ba5ok
DHONI FOOLED US!
Winning the IPL was never as easy as he made it look. Taking CSK to the playoffs 12 times in 14 seasons isn’t consistency… it’s dominance.
He fooled us by turning finals and trophies into habits, making the IPL feel easy. It never was… it was just him. 💛
2004 was a good year, but your Gmail address doesn't need to be stuck in it.
To say goodbye to [email protected] or [email protected] (or whatever you were into at the time), go to your Google Account settings and choose any name available. You'll keep your old username and you can sign in with both.
🚨 Shocking statement from Robin Uthappa about IPL auction:
We should stop the auction system in cricket. I understand its importance when it first started, you wanted it to grab attention and become a big hit. But in today’s date, you don’t want to sell humans like commodities or have them go under the hammer.
If you look at American sports like the NFL and NBA, they have a draft system, which makes things more interesting. Yet we are still sticking to the auction because it’s entertaining.
However, there is a limit to entertainment, and it feels like we’re crossing that line. We need to bring that respect back into our society and communities.
There is a semblance of respect and we don't sell them as commodities on national television.
*Sanju Samson*: "
When people talk about my journey, they usually start with stadiums.
*For me, it always begins with a bus.*
I was eleven. My kit bag felt heavier than me. *I would leave home in Vizhinjam before the sun came up, change two buses, and reach the Medical College ground by 6 in the morning. Some days I was sleepy. Some days I was sore. But I don’t remember ever wanting to skip it* .
After practice, I would bathe under a small tap at the corner of the ground. No dressing room. Just cold water, a towel in my bag, and a quick change into my school uniform. Then I’d walk to catch another bus to St Joseph’s. School, homework, and then back again for evening nets.
That was my life. Every day
I didn’t think of it as a sacrifice. I just thought — this is what it takes.
*My grandfather was a fisherman. Watching him, I understood something early. You can’t control the sea. You can only control how prepared you are when you go out. Some days you come back with nothing. But you still wake up the next morning and go again. That stayed with me* .
There were phases when I felt close to my dream. And phases when I felt very far from it. Being dropped. Sitting out. Hearing opinions. Smiling outside but questioning yourself inside.
I won’t lie, it hurts. I’m human.
*But every time I feel that doubt, I go back in my mind to that small tap at the ground. To the buses. To my parents adjusting their lives around my practice. I remind myself that this journey was never built on comfort. It was built on consistency* .
When I play in Thiruvananthapuram and hear the crowd shout my name, it feels personal. They didn’t just see me succeed. They saw me grow. They saw the process.
I am still that boy from Vizhinjam. I still love batting the same way. I still get nervous. I still want to prove myself. The only difference is the stage.
*The fight hasn’t stopped. It probably never will* .
*Because for me, cricket was never about fame* .
*It was about a dream I chose , and keep choosing : every single day* . "
*~ Sanju Samson*
பெத்த பிள்ளைகளை விரட்டியடித்த விஜய் வாழும் இதே உலகத்தில் தான் பிள்ளைகளுக்கு தன் தோளில் சிம்மாசனம் அமைத்து பள்ளிக்கு தூக்கிச் செல்லும் ஏழைத் தந்தை இருக்கிறார்.
நாலு டம்ளர் வாங்கி குட��� @TVKVijayHQ
Watched the Dinosaurs documentary on Netflix this weekend. Highly recommend, especially with kids.
Dinosaurs ruled this planet for 165 million years. Then an asteroid they never saw coming ended it all in a geological blink.
Put that in perspective.
Humans with abstract thinking, art, and complex language, what we'd call truly modern humans, have existed for maybe 50,000 to 100,000 years.
Civilisation as we know it? Writing, cities, organised society? Maybe 5,000 years.
The version with industrial-scale technology, global trade, and the ability to reshape the planet? Barely 200 years.
And the version with nuclear weapons, AI, and the ability to end all of it? Less than 100 years.
We solved the asteroid problem, by the way. NASA can now track and deflect them. The thing that wiped out 165 million years of dinosaurs, we've figured that one out.
And yet billions are being spent daily on war and destruction, making an already bad climate situation even worse.
The threats coming from the universe are becoming manageable. The ones we're creating ourselves, not so much.
The dinosaurs had no choice. The asteroid just came.
We do. That's what makes what's happening right now so much harder to watch.
This ‘no shaking hands’ is such a silly thing that India has started. It’s unbecoming of a nation like ours. Either play properly within the spirit of the game or don’t play at all.
In a country where men control most of the purchasing power so filmmakers chase mass trash like Pushpa and now clowns like Vanga & Joking Star have reduced women to eye candy only
How #AamirKhan made Dangal the Biggest Blockbuster & Most Watched film ever Still blows my mind !!