Annamalai slams classroom disruption over display of CM Vijay photo in Tamil Nadu school

“However, such actions by DMK party members are only further tarnishing the state of government schools,” he emphasised.

Annamalai, on behalf of the members of his political movement, which he launched after departure from the BJP, said: “We believe that Chief Minister Thiru @TVKVijayHQ himself would not approve of ruling party members entering government schools and disrupting classes just because they are in power.”

He also urged CM Vijay and the Minister for School Education to avoid recurrence of such incidents. “We urge the Chief Minister and the Minister for School Education to instruct their party members to ensure such incidents do not recur,” he wrote in his post.

Earlier this week, he had expressed his concern over the “military-grade” security measures being enforced by the Centre for the NEET-UG 2025 examination. He said the extensive arrangements would only add to the already-existing exam pressure faced by students and likely create new problems.

“While the government has taken measures to contain leaks, they have forgotten the additional burden they have imposed on a young student before they take up an assessment, one that they have spent months preparing for, dissolving the entire purpose of our exam system and the NEP 2020’s goal to reduce ‘Exam Stress’,” he had said.

In the beginning of June, Annamalai unveiled a new political movement that he asserted would eventually become a political party and contest the 2031 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections.

As quoted by a report in The Indian Express, the former BJP leader had framed his new initiative as an attempt to build what he called “common man politics,” distancing himself from personality-driven political culture. “We must come out of this cult politics,” he said. “We must promote common man politics.”