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.

Tamil Nadu CM Vijay pledges a corruption-free state and targets a $1.5 trillion economy by 2036 in his Independence Day address.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay pledged cooperation with the Union government on administrative matters. He asserted opposition to policies infringing upon the state's…