A TVK supporter handle shared a video clipping of Joseph Vijay at the manifesto release event captioning it as ‘What brother, you have tanned’.
என்ன அண்ணா கறுத்து போயிட்ட 😭 pic.twitter.com/LwCadfUN3a
— Pokkiri_Victor (@Pokkiri_Victor) April 16, 2026
This is pretty common for politicians especially in Tamil Nadu in the height of campaigning during the summer primarily during elections.
But the DMK supporters and other Dravidianists made a mockery of this sentiment and started making racist comments.
One handle on a Facebook group shared a darkened image of Vijay stating, “Rare African species!”
This is incorrigible!
DMK IT wing being racist and body shaming Vijay by morphing his pics .
DMK has nothing solid to win and because of this they are using tactics like this to dehumanise their opposition.
Hope TVK is going to file a case on this ? pic.twitter.com/mnMd3IDPKa
— Shalin Maria Lawrence (@ShalinSpeaks) April 17, 2026
Then came comments from one of the most abusive handles – DMK supporter ‘Dr’ Aravind Raja who has made casteist slurs against Carnatic singer Sivasri Skandaprasad. He has also made several other derogatory remarks.
He shared a post with a darkened image of Vijay mockingly writing, “Poor brother is going to the field (ground) for us and tanned so much”.
He shared another post later in the day saying “Who is responsible for the tanning? The sun. Whose symbol is the sun? DMK symbol. So… as usual, the evil force DMK must be eradicated.”
It is noteworthy that it was the same DMK that derogated Kamarajar by making a cartoon portraying him as a black.
On 8 February 1957, in Murasoli magazine, Karunanidhi, serving as the chief editor at the time, published a controversial cartoon that depicted a derogatory portrayal. The cartoon featured a black woman undergoing makeup to resemble Kamaraj, with another figure representing Prime Minister Nehru as the makeup artist. The caption accompanying the cartoon read, “The true Tamilian is getting ready for vote hunting.” This portrayal aimed to ridicule Kamaraj for his deliberate decision not to marry. Karunanidhi ridiculed him by likening him to a woman dressed in a saree and wearing a nose pin. This has been widely condemned as one of the most disgraceful instances of mockery in political history, stemming from jealousy over Kamaraj’s effective governance.
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