Vijay hoists tricolour at Secretariat in first I-Day ceremony as CM; vows to defend TN's rights

Chennai, Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay on Saturday pledged to firmly protect Tamil Nadu's interests and constitutional rights while building a transparent, people-friendly and corruption-free administration. "I salute the people of Tamil Nadu who broke caste and religion considerations, rejecting money and muscle power and gave us overwhelming support to establish the people-centric and social justice government. We are in mission mode to achieve a corruption-free government and want our people to develop zero tolerance towards corruption and we appeal to our officials and the people of the state to make it corruption-free," Vijay said.