Tamil Nadu: Vijay’s TVK leads in 109 of 234 seats, threatens DMK-AIADMK duopoly
Actor-politician Vijay’s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) seems set to finish the duopoly of the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and the Opposition All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) in Tamil Nadu, because it led in 109 of 234 seats at 1:42pm, marking a shocking electoral debut. The AIADMK was forward on 57 seats, DMK 49, Congress 4, and the Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) one.
Vijay tapped into his mass attraction as a movie star, overcoming a scarcity of political expertise, as individuals appeared for a change and an alternative choice to the DMK and AIADMK. TVK’s cadre is generally drawn from the Vijay fan golf equipment, which have thousands and thousands of members throughout the state. The membership members have been projected as a part of Vijay’s individuals’s motion, “Vijay Makkal Iyakkam,” concerned in social service.
A TVK chief mentioned the fan golf equipment ensured that Vijay’s political message reached each dwelling. “They labored with loads of enthusiasm for his or her star,” he mentioned, attributing the TVK’s beautiful debut to the “younger, unrelenting” cadre that labored across the clock.
Vijay launched his political get together in February 2024 and introduced that he would contest the 2026 elections. In August 2024, Vijay unveiled his get together’s two-coloured flag: shiny pink on the prime and backside, and yellow within the center with two elephants on both aspect of the flower ‘Vaagai’. The Tamil phrase ‘Vaagai’ additionally means victory.
TVK’s tagline, ‘Pirappokkum Ella Uyirkum’ means “all are equal by start,” underscoring the get together’s give attention to equality, including to its attraction. The get together selected candidates rigorously based mostly on surveys about winnability throughout constituencies. In March, Vijay introduced all 234 candidates, together with 26 girls, calling them his nominees and telling voters they might be voting for him.
The get together’s nominees have been chosen based mostly on the grassroots connection. Vijay maintained that the 2026 polls have been a battle between “individuals’s alliance” as he termed it, and the ruling DMK.
Properly-known politician N Anand was among the many first to hitch TVK. Former Indian Income Service officer Ok G Arunraj and political strategist John Arokiyasamy, who has labored with main political events and offered political consultancy, have been amongst those that adopted go well with
Vijay slammed DMK and AIADMK, projecting himself as extra able to delivering fashionable, secular, and corruption-free governance. Vijay attacked the BJP, declaring it an ideological opponent and the DMK as a political adversary.
He promised a clear and accountable administration, echoed widespread opposition in Tamil Nadu to the Nationwide Eligibility cum Entrance Take a look at for admissions to medical faculties, and demanded that schooling be moved again to the state record from the concurrent record.
