Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) chief Vijay on Monday ferried families of victims from the Karur stampede (September 27), where 41 people died and over 60 were injured, nearly 400 km to a private resort in Tamil Nadu's Mahabalipuram. This action of Vijay sparked a row over the exhausting round trip of 800 kilometres that critics and opposition leaders slammed as insensitive and avoidable.
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On Monday, five buses carried relatives of 37 deceased people from Karur to the temple town of Mahabalipuram, 400 kilometres away and just 50 kilometres south
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