Overview
- TVK leader Vijay met Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar in Chennai to stake a claim to form the government.
- The debutant party won 108 of 234 seats, below the 118 needed for a simple majority in the Assembly.
- Congress, which holds five seats, has formally offered support to Vijay’s effort to form a government.
- Even with Congress backing, TVK remains five seats shy and is courting VCK, CPI, and CPI(M), which have not signalled support.
- The DMK holds 59 seats and the NDA bloc led by AIADMK and BJP has 53, leaving smaller parties with outsized leverage in the hung House.