'Eat 5 Star, Do Nothing': DMK targets Edappadi K Palaniswami with satirical post on World Chocolate Day; AIADMK launches 2026 campaign from coimbatore
) on Monday launched a political attack on
general secretary
through a satirical social media post on World Chocolate Day.
The post, shared by 'dmkitwing' on Instagram, featured a cartoon caricature of Palaniswami with the caption "Eat 5 Star, Do Nothing," criticizing his alleged inaction on Tamil Nadu's key issues.
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The DMK's social media post highlighted several concerns including the NEET ban, education funding, Tamil Nadu's democratic research representation, Keeladi archaeological findings, and Tamil language funding support.
In response to recent political developments, Palaniswami called for unity among like-minded parties to defeat the ruling DMK government in Tamil Nadu.
"All like-minded parties should unite to defeat the DMK, which is anti-people and whoever wants DMK to get defeated, we are happy to form an alliance with them.
Their cooperation is needed for this -- that is my opinion," Palaniswami stated after launching his election campaign logo.
The AIADMK leader maintained openness to alliances, including with actor Vijay's newly launched Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK), despite TVK's stance against partnering with the BJP.
Addressing Vijay's decision to contest independently, Palaniswami said, "That is his decision. Each party will criticise the other parties.
Based on that, he has criticised our alliance. All parties do this to develop their base; that is normal."
Expressing confidence about AIADMK's future prospects, Palaniswami stated, "This could be just an election campaign, but this campaign journey has a big goal. The goal is to defeat the Stalin Model DMK government. This journey is to reflect the flaws and failures of the DMK government and to remove them. This election campaign would bring a big change.
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AIADMK will create history by winning the election in 2026."
The AIADMK campaign is scheduled to commence from Coimbatore on July 7, covering eight districts in its first phase.
The party's Deputy General Secretary K P Munusamy released a campaign song alongside the new logo 'Makkalai Kaappom, Thamizhagathai Meetpom' (Let's Protect the People, Let's Redeem Tamil Nadu).
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