Vijay at his swearing-in ceremony as Tamil Nadu chief minister. A day after Vijay swore in as the new chief minister of Tamil Nadu, his speech at the occasion hasn’t gone down well with some critics. These include renowned author and screenwriter Manu Joseph. He took to his X handle on Monday to call out Vijay’s hypocrisy of claiming to be poor during childhood , revealing that he’s known the Tamil superstar since they were batchmates in the third standard at Loyola school in Chennai. What did Manu Joseph say? “In his first speech as Tamil Nadu chief minister, Vijay said that he grew up in poverty, and that he even knows what hunger is. It’s bullsh*t because he was my classmate in the third standard in Loyola School. His father was a filmmaker who set up his son for a career in films,” wrote Joseph, pointing to Vijay’s father and veteran filmmaker SA Chandrasekhar. “It is possible that like most filmmakers his father may have had periods of financial strife but that’s not the same as Tamil-grade poverty.…