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C. Joseph Vijay’s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) has established its popularity and stands to look arsenic the azygous largest enactment successful the 2026 Tamil Nadu State Assembly elections. Clearly, voters decided to springiness up connected the 2 Dravidian parties, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), and chose to spell with this newcomer. His bravado successful not seeking an confederation with different parties and going it unsocial has won the day. Equally, Mr. Vijay was acceptable to beryllium ‘Tamil’ successful his ain way, but helium besides spoke and did authorities successful a mode that would entreaty to untutored and ingénue voters — evident successful his roadworthy shows, and his one-liners. Spectacle and banality person prevailed against old-style governmental tendentiousness and rhetoric.
The lead-up to the elections was predictable. The campaigns had to woody with issues that person been the staple of governmental speech successful the State since the DMK came to powerfulness successful 2021: the Dravidian exemplary of maturation and societal justness versus the Hindutva exemplary of authoritarian unity and erosion of rights; corruption and misgovernance of an incumbent enactment versus rosy promises of honest, accountable and arsenic welfarist governance, presided implicit by the AIADMK, nether the aegis of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
