On 22 December 2025, actor-turned-politician Vijay hosted the “Samathuva Christmas” (Equality Christmas) for his followers and party cadre – a highly publicised event just before the Christmas festival. He was seen sharing the stage with Christian religious heads, preachers, pastors, and celebrating the festival with children and adults alike.
TVK chief Vijay hosts grand Christmas event in Mahabalipuram
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— News18 (@CNNnews18) December 22, 2025
Less than a month later, it is time for Pongal festival, but apart from wishing his followers for the festival and spreading the Christian missionary and Dravidianist agenda that projects Pongal as the Tamil New Year – a lie that has no truth to it, he did not even celebrate the festival with his followers or the TVK cadre.
For a leader who claims to stand for Tamil identity, the way he treated these two festivals says a lot about the important he gives for Tamil Hindu culture and what really matters to him.
Christmas vs Pongal
As mentioned above, Vijay happily fronted TVK’s “Samathuva” Christmas events in Mamallapuram, greeting crowds, cutting cakes and posing for carefully curated social‑media visuals that framed him as an inclusive, modern leader.
The same Vijay then told the CBI he needed to return to Tamil Nadu for Pongal programmes, leading the agency to postpone its second round of Karur‑stampede questioning from immediately after his first appearance to 19 January 2026.
His Pongal content was limited to greetings, with no comparable public engagement.
Having invoked Pongal to secure that breathing space, his failure to be visibly present in a comparable way for the festival – at a time when even the Prime Minister chose to be seen at a Pongal celebration in Delhi with Tamil film celebrities – naturally invites scrutiny.
It may be normal for the CBI to postpone questioning. But if Pongal is given as the reason, people will expect the leader to visibly take part in Pongal celebrations.
A Party For Tamils Or Just Optics?
TVK, as espoused by Vijay, is supposedly being built on a plank of Tamil identity, linguistic pride and a promise of “different” politics. For such a formation, Pongal is not just another holiday; it is a political stage as important as any public rally.
When the Prime Minister is seen presiding over Pongal festivities in the capital, the absence of the self‑declared “future CM” from any equivalent cultural engagement is revealing.
Or is his religious beliefs preventing him from celebrating since Pongal is a Tamil Hindu festival dedicated to worshipping the Sun God?
Netizens pointing out that Vijay could find time and comfort to celebrate Christmas, but not Pongal after specifically citing it to the CBI, are not nit‑picking; they are calling out what appears, at best, as casual planning and, at worst, as religious fundamentalism.
Vijay has given his critics all the ammunition they need – that he will do anything to escape responsibility and celebrate what suits him as a Christian.
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