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Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) president C. Joseph Vijay was sworn-in arsenic Tamil Nadu Chief Minister successful Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium successful Chennai connected Sunday (May 10, 2026) greeting — a infinitesimal agelong awaited by respective 1000 fans and supporters. As Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar administered the oath of bureau and secrecy to the caller Chief Minister, emotionally-charged supporters cheered their ‘Thalapathy’ assuming Tamil Nadu’s apical governmental office. Several fans turned visibly emotional, with immoderate shedding tears of joyousness arsenic they witnessed the actor-turned-politician becoming the Chief Minister of the State. Congress person Rahul Gandhi was contiguous connected the stage.
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Dressed successful a achromatic blazer and achromatic pants, Mr. Vijay wore his diagnostic grin arsenic helium walked up to the podium to beryllium administered the customary oath of bureau and secrecy. As helium commenced uttering “C. Joseph Vijay ennum naan…”, the assemblage erupted successful celebration, with whistle sounds filling the stadium with excitement and a consciousness of governmental arrival. Mr. Vijay, who has been successful TN cine manufacture since 1984 and entered authorities lone a fewer years ago, has present go the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, wherever cinema and authorities proceed to stay intimately associated. Nine others, N. Anand, Aadhav Arjuna, K.G. Arunraj, K.A. Sengottaiyan, P. Venkataramanan, R. Nirmalkumar, Rajmohan, T.K. Prabhu and S. Keerthana were besides administered the oath of bureau and secrecy.
TVK contested successful 233 constituencies without immoderate allies and secured astir 1.7 crore of the full 4.9 crore votes polled successful the April 23 Assembly election. Over the 5 days aft his enactment secured 108 of the 234 seats successful the Assembly connected May 4, Mr. Vijay managed to unafraid the enactment of the Congress, the Communist Party of India, the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi, and the Indian Union Muslim League to signifier the government. On Saturday evening, the Governor appointed Mr. Vijay arsenic the Chief Minister with a absorption to question the ballot of assurance of the Assembly connected oregon earlier May 13.
The Cabinet led by Mr. Vijay besides marked a caller governmental section aft 5 decades that volition beryllium scripted neither by the AIADMK nor the DMK. In February 2024, Mr. Vijay formally launched his party, contending that his Vijay Makkal Iyakkam instrumentality nine unsocial could not bring astir social, economical and governmental reforms and that governmental powerfulness was necessary. In a connection issued connected February 2 that year, Mr. Vijay had vowed to reason a governmental civilization riddled with corruption and divisive practices based connected caste and religion.
Mr. Vijay’s governmental travel since 2024 is said to person prompted respective young radical and cinema fans to instrumentality greater involvement successful politics, with the TVK emerging arsenic an alternate governmental level for galore successful the State. At the aforesaid time, the two-year-old party’s ideological positioning, organisational operation and the governmental acumen of galore of its functionaries whitethorn inactive beryllium evolving. For now, however, the TVK with Mr. Vijay arsenic its face, seems to person capable electoral spot to support some the AIADMK and the DMK retired of powerfulness successful Tamil Nadu.
