"I thank Prime Minister Modi, Union Minister Pon Radhakrishnan, MDMK chief Vaiko, Kongunadu Makkal Desiya Katchi general secretary E R Easwaran and leaders of several other political parties and friends who greeted me on my birthday," Vijayakanth said in a statement here.
The Vijayakanth-led DMDK is celebrating its founder president's birthday as "Poverty Eradication Day," by giving away welfare assistance to the indigent.