Tiruchirapalli (Tamil Nadu) The air in Tiruchirapalli was charged with a different kind of excitement. FOR THE FIRST TIME: the people of the constituency gathered not just to see a movie star or a political aspirant, but to hear from a man they now called their chief minister.
Hordes of people lined both sides of the roads leading to St Joseph’s College, where Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay was scheduled to speak and thank the people of the constituency who had voted for him in the Assembly elections.
Vijay, who won from both Tiruchirappalli (East) and Perambur, later resigned from the Tiruchirappalli (East) seat.
Seated in the front, he waved to the people who were waiting on both sides of the road. Party workers and locals showered flowers on his vehicle at several places, and they enthusiastically shouted ‘Vijay’.
As soon as Vijay arrived, he was accorded a ceremonial police salute, and Ministers Aadhav Arjuna and S Ramesh, senior officials, Lok Sabha MP Durai Vaiko welcomed him.
Later, he travelled in a van from the airport to the venue of the public meeting, St Joseph College, a distance of roughly 10 km.
Police had made tight security arrangements in view of the visit of the chief minister.
Vijay is all set to address people on the premises of the college by 4.15 PM to thank the people of Tiruchirappalli East, from where he won and subsequently resigned his seat so as to retain the Perambur seat in Chennai.
It should be noted that in the run-up to the assembly elections, Vijay kick-started his ‘I am coming’ state-wide campaign in Tiruchirappalli on September 13, 2025.
