Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay on Tuesday issued a clarification on his “body language” while replying to the debate on the demand for grants for the Police and Fire and Rescue Services departments. In a post on X, the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam party chief said his gesture of touching his jaw during the speech was “not in any way intentional.”
Vijay, his post, said, “I wish to clarify that, during my response speech on the police department’s grant request in the Legislative Assembly on 7.9.2026, my body language, which inadvertently came across in between, was not in any way intentional. Some claimed that the jaw gesture had made to mock former Tamil Nadu CM and DMK president MK Stalin, who had reportedly suffered a jaw fracture during hisincarceration during the Emergency in 1975, PTI news agency reported. This came a day after ruckus in the Tamil Nadu Assembly following Vijay’s remarks against the previous DMK regime over corruption in the state-run liquor retailer TASMAC, detailing findings from the central probe agency Enforcement Directorate (ED). The chief minister also made remarks referring to the MISA Act and the Sarkaria Commission, following which DMK staged a walkout from the Assembly.
