Former AIADMK ministers, ex-MLAs and district leaders joined Chief Minister Vijay's TVK in Mahabalipuram, while DMK MP Kanimozhi mocked the political defections with her "washing machine" remark.
He has won the election. He sits in the Chief Minister's chair. Yet the 'reel CM' jibes keep coming. On Tuesday, Vijay walked into the Tamil Nadu Assembly and answered every one of them.
The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a petition seeking a CBI investigation into alleged corruption and horse-trading in securing support during the trust vote won by the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) government led by Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay in the Tamil Nadu Assembly on May 13, 2026.
Dissidence rocks the Opposition AIADMK yet again with senior leader C. Ve. Shanmugam, who led the previous revolt, accusing party general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami (EPS) of dynastic politics by promoting his son as the heir apparent and allowing his family to maintain an iron grip over the organisation.
The arrest followed an FIR registered by the Chennai Police Cyber Crime Wing on the charge of posting ‘derogatory and obscene’ remarks against a woman minister in the Vijay cabinet.
They came from opposite worlds. One memorised scripts. The other memorised the IPC. Now one runs Tamil Nadu and the other is starting from zero, by choice. The last time this state saw that combination, it took fifty years to settle.
Marginalised in the BJP, facing a bleak future in the state politics following the dramatic rise of Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) and Joseph Vijay’s ascent as Chief Minister, saffron party’s former state president K Annamalai is likely to launch his own political vehicle on May 4, coinciding with his birthday.
The induction of former ministers, ex-MLAs and party functionaries is being projected by TVK as a sign of its growing organisational reach across Tamil Nadu.
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.
Public anger erupted in Coimbatore after a 10-year-old girl was found dead near a pond, with police arresting two accused and the CM promising strict punishment.
