Chennai: Tamil Actor Thalapathy Vijay’s fan club members won more than 100 in Tamil Nadu rural local body elections which held recently. The actor’s fan club won 115 of the 169 seats it contested and according to its General Secretary and former Congress Puducherry MLA Bussy Anand, won unopposed in 13 seats. Vijay’s fan Anand also told the media that 45 of the 115 winners are women, and other winners include farmers, lab technicians, students, school teachers, and traders.

This was the first time that Vijay why going by popularity ratings is second to Rajinikanth in Tamil cinema, allowed his fan club All India Thalapathy Vijay Makkal Iyyakam to contest from the rural bodies of nine districts which went to polls. Vijay who had not given permission to float a political outfit and filed a criminal case against 11 persons including his parents, S. Chandrashekhar and Sobha Sekhar, in this connection had however allowed his fans to contest the polls.
The All India Thalapathy Makkal Iyyakam has more than 10 lakh registered members and the fans association generally does not have any political affiliations, except in the 2011 elections, when Vijay extended support to the AIADMK and Jayalalitha.