Ever since three rebel AIADMK legislators resigned and defected to Chief Minister Vijay's Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK), the principal Opposition DMK and the AIADMK, along with others, have attacked the ruling party, accusing it of blatant horse trading to shore up its majority in the Assembly.
Rattled by persistent speculation that he was instrumental in the attempt to prop up a coalition government of traditional rivals, DMK and AIADMK, to deny the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) of Vijay, which emerged as the single largest party, a shot at power, superstar Rajinikanth on Sunday clarified that he was not so cheap to indulge in such a move.
Senior AIADMK leaders have begun mobilising support against EPS, with rebels exploring party rules to trigger a major leadership confrontation after the 2026 poll setback.
Aadhav Arjuna rejected Udhayanidhi Stalin’s interpretation of Sanatan Dharma, saying he does not understand the concept and clarifying his own secular stance.
The Tamil Nadu government cancelled the appointment of TVK spokesperson Rickey Vettrivel as OSD to Chief Minister Vijay within a day of issuing the order.
In a balancing act, the Constitution Bench’s Supreme Court making it clear that Governors could not indefinitely sit on Bills while declining to set a timeline for either the President or the Raj Bhavans, has been welcomed by the DMK, which claimed it as a victory.
Even after the TVK reiterated that it would have not had any truck with parties aligned with the BJP, the AIADMK hasn’t given up its hope.
This comes in response to a veiled criticism and taunts of Chief Minister and DMK president MK Stalin and Deputy CM Udhayanidhi on the TVK at the just-concluded ‘Arivu Thiruvizha’ (Knowledge Festival) that marked mark the platinum jubilee of the DMK.
Painting the EC and Modi government in black, the protests were also a show of strength and solidarity among the allies of the DMK-led Secular Progressive Front, comprising the Congress, VCK, Left Parties, MDMK, and Muslim parties, and others.
Debunking the protests by the ruling DMK and its allies across Tamil Nadu against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls as a diversionary tactic to conceal the Stalin government's failure, BJP leader and Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday claimed that the Chief Minister’s assembly constituency in Chennai itself had 4,379 fake voters.
