00:02That's S.A. Chand's Shekhal, emotional as his son Vijay takes Oath as Tamil Nadu's CM.
00:08With this man celebrating in the front row spent decades secretly building this exact moment.
00:18Because long before TVK, before political rallies, before Vijay even wanted politics, it was him.
00:26Back in 1993, he launched Vijay's Rasigarh Mandram, a massive fan work network that later evolved into welfare groups across
00:35Tamil Nadu.
00:36Then in 2009, all those fan clubs came under one umbrella, Vijay Makkal Ayakam.
00:42And that's where the political groundwork quietly began.
00:46By 2020, Chandrasekhar had already hit the accelerator.
00:49He tried converting that fan movement into a political party called All India Thalapati Vijay Makkal Ayakam,
00:56reportedly without even informing Vijay first.
00:59Vijay later publicly distanced himself from the party,
01:02and even reportedly filed a lawsuit against his own parents and others to stop them from using his name and
01:08image politically.
01:10And eventually, the party was dissolved.
01:12But Chandrasekhar defended himself, saying Vijay's fan movement had already become a people's movement.
01:18Politics, according to him, was simply the next natural step.
01:22Then came February 2024.
01:24Vijay officially launched Tamil Gavetri Kalagam,
01:27essentially turning that fan club machinery his father spent decades building into a real political force.
01:34A man, once reluctant to enter politics,
01:36had suddenly broken Tamil Nadu's decades-long DMK vs. AIA-DMK dominance,
01:42and through all of this,
01:44one person never stopped backing him publicly,
01:47his father.
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