Tamil Nadu continues to form new Government amid political stalemate

way2barak, May 8: Three days after the actor-turned-politician Vijay delivered a superhit victory in the 2026 Tamil Nadu Assembly Election and emerged as the single-largest party with 108 seats in the 234-member assembly, there continues to be a lack of clarity over who will form a government in the state. The majority mark is 118. It initially seemed the TVK, with conditional support from the Congress, would stake claim, but Tamil Nadu Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar, who met Vijay for the second time in three days on Thursday, is not convinced TVK has the numbers yet to form the government.

Amid this, there is buzz that the Dravidian arch-rivals DMK and AIADMK may come together after over 50 years to form a government and keep Vijay out of power. For the plan to take off, the Left and VCK need to sign off on it. Vijay has already approached these parties for support and they have been stalling for time.

Sources have told that the Udhayanidhi Stalin faction of the DMK fear that Vijay could bring about a re-run of the years under AIADMK’s iconic Chief Minister MG Ramachandran or MGR, who in his lifetime, had never allowed the DMK to capture power.

The other half of this arrangement, the AIADMK, is ready to consider it in view of its survival, especially in view of its four successive poll defeats since the death of J Jayalalithaa. And the BJP, which comprises the backroom, is interested in keeping the Congress out of power after its alliance with the TVK, sources said.