India, Sept. 30 -- DMK leader A Raja on Tuesday criticised TVK chief Vijay, saying that fleeing implies a guilty conscience, just days after a stampede at the actor-turned-politician's rally in Tamil Nadu's Karur killed 41 people.

Speaking to PTI, he said, "When incidents took place where 41 lives were lost, is it not the duty of a leader to stay there? If at all you are a cinema actor, you are a popular cinema actor, I am able to understand that if you are going again, a crowd may come. Is it not your duty to send second-line leaders and lieutenants to be there and to help the people, those who have lost their lives? Nobody is on the ground. What does it mean?"

He added, "Fleeing from the government itself, what it says is you are admi...