Thalapathy Vijay call to end cash for votes

Thalapathy Vijay asked students to ask their parents to not accept money for casting votes. " I am sure they will listen, No harm in trying it " , he told the students who came with their parents to recieve cash award of Rs 10,000 and a certificate from Vijay Makkal Iyakkam. He said that the finger that deides the future leaders has become like poking the finger at one's own eye. He said that if Rs 1000 is given to each voter and taking that there is 1.5 lakh voters, one should think that the man who is spending Rs 15 crore would have earned how much before that. In his brief speech he said that money and land can be taken away but not education from any one and said that he heard in a film dialogue. He said that those who have completed 10 and 12th Standard would be going away from their parents care and enter a world of freedom in college and said that that should be handled with caution and at that time he said that life too should be enjoyed. He asked students to take up the habit of reading and said that it was only that in recent times that he took to reading. He started his speech by saying unlike those who were sitting in the hall, he was a very ordainry student who just passed his exams. He ended the speech saying that those who had passed with distinction should take time to spend with those who had not passed the exams and motivate them. Crowds cheered him when he came down from the dias and went to student who was physically disabled to give the certificate and similarly seated next to him in the audience was a student's mother who came with a baby in a pram