Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay Karur is scheduled to visit on July 10 to participate in government functions and public interaction programme, TVK leader M R Vijayabaskar said on Sunday, PTI reported.
While this will be CM Vijay’s first visit to Karur since the major incident that claimed at least 41 lives during his public event last year when he was trying to define his political stance. When huge crowds gathered to catch a glimpse of Vijay, due to his large fan following as an actor, mismanagement created chaos that caused a stampede.
The incident was considered detrimental to Vijay’s political debut, though he ended up defeating MK Stalin’s party DMK in the April 2026 Assembly elections.
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About Vijay’s upcoming visit to Karur, Vijayabaskar said that preparations are underway and his visit will also include a ‘Makkal Sandhippu’ (public awareness) event. He was quoted as saying that the state government would announce the itinerary and official locations soon.
Karur stampede leading up to the DMK vs TVK match
The stampede of crowds at Vijay’s Karur rally on September 25 last year pitted TVK and DMK against each other while questions were raised over security arrangements at the event.
The case reached the Supreme Court, which referred the stampede investigation to the Central Bureau of Investigation on October 13, 2025, saying the tragedy had shaken the “public conscience” and raised serious doubts about the integrity of the state investigation.
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On July 4, the DMK approached the Supreme Court seeking to be made a party to the proceedings in the Karur stampede case, arguing that its intervention was necessary to ensure the integrity and independence of the court-monitored CBI investigation.
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In its application filed by party organizing secretary and former Rajya Sabha MP R S Bharati, the DMK alleged that a series of actions taken by the ruling TVK government, including the proposed distribution of government jobs and other benefits to families of stampede victims, coupled with public statements made by the ministers themselves accused in the case, risk “compromising” the ongoing investigation.
