Tamil Nadu Assembly Election Results 2026: The counting of votes across all the 234 Assembly constituencies where polling was held on April 23 has begun.
Though there have been pre-poll alliances in Tamil Nadu elections, no alliance has fought the elections on a CMP thus far. And neither the ruling DMK nor the principal opposition AIADMK have ever agreed for a coalition government so far.
Handing out defeats in a row in 10 successive elections since the 2019 Lok Sabha poll, the people of Tamil Nadu will bid a final goodbye to AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami (EPS) at the hustings in 2026, Chief Minister and DMK president MK Stalin slammed the leader of the principal opposition on Wednesday.
AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami (EPS) on Wednesday clarified that Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah had stated that “only our alliance will capture power” in the 2026 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, and did not mention a “coalition government.”
“The AIADMK will secure a majority on its own and form the government. I have reiterated this many times,” he told reporters in Puducherry in response to a question on Amit Shah’s interview published in an English daily this morning.
Keeping the heat on the AIADMK-BJP alliance, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Tuesday debunked it as a coalition formed out of frustration due to successive electoral defeats in utter desperation.
Calling the AIADMK-BJP alliance the "alliance of defeat," Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Saturday attacked Union Home Minister Amit Shah and AIADMK leadership and said that the people of the state will never tolerate a "treacherous alliance" that bows to Delhi and betrays Tamil Nadu.
With a section of BJP leaders in Tamil Nadu, including former Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajuan, batting for the AIADMK’s return to the NDA fold, Annamalai too has, of late, softened his stance on the Dravidian party.
Moving closer to the saffron party, the AIADMK appears all set to make its re-entry into the BJP-led NDA ahead of the 2026 Tamil Nadu assembly elections.
Amidst the growing speculation over Tamil Nadu's principal opposition AIADMK returning to the BJP-led NDA fold ahead of the 2026 assembly polls, party general secretary and former chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami (EPS) landed in Delhi on Tuesday.
