Madurantakam (Tamil Nadu), Oct 2: TVK President and Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay, known for his penchant for driving vehicles at official events, chose a different vehicle altogether on Friday, a tractor, amid his busy campaigning for the October 6 bypolls.
When Vijay's motorcade was going past a village near here, it came to a screeching halt on a roadside location where a farmer was operating a tractor.
The chief minister, clad in a white shirt and dhoti, got down from his campaign vehicle and walked straight to the agricultural fields and had a word with the farmer on the tractor, who warmly welcomed him.
Moments later, Vijay was behind the steering and drove the tractor on the slushy farm fields for a few minutes and eventually brought it out onto the main road where waiting people greeted him for his successful attempt, as driving a tractor was not like driving any other class of vehicle.
Vijay held a roadshow here across villages seeking votes for his party candidate Maragatham Kumaravel in the Madurantakam Assembly Constituency.
