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The ruling Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) successful Tamil Nadu connected Wednesday (May 20, 2026) openly extended an invitation to the Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) and the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) to beryllium portion of the Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay-led Cabinet.
“We invitation VCK person Thol. Thirumavalavan to beryllium portion of the Council of Ministers. This is the privation of the Chief Minister arsenic well. Similarly, the IUML should besides articulation the Council of Ministers. We person conveyed our invitation to IUML leaders,” Minister for Public Works and Sports Development and TVK wide caput (election run management) Aadhav Arjuna told reporters successful Chennai.
Mr. Arjuna said Mr. Vijay would determine connected the Cabinet enlargement and an announcement successful this respect was expected soon. He said Mr. Vijay and the TVK believed that secular parties should besides beryllium portion of the Council of Ministers.
“The Chief Minister has already urged the Congress party, which extended enactment to the TVK authorities by placing its religion successful us, to beryllium portion of the Cabinet. We respect the basal of the Left parties — CPI(M) and CPI — successful extending extracurricular enactment to the government,” helium said.
‘Dravidian parties underestimated TVK’
He said the radical of Tamil Nadu, peculiarly women and youngsters, voted for a alteration aft a spread of astir 50 years. However, some the DMK and the AIADMK underestimated the TVK, helium said.
Mr. Arjuna said aft the results were declared, the AIADMK should person functioned arsenic an absorption party. However, helium accused AIADMK wide caput Edappadi K. Palaniswami of attempting to articulation hands with the DMK by going against the people’s mandate and trying to marque a “backdoor entry” until the past minute.
He besides alleged that the DMK had deviated from its halfway principles of secularism. During the predetermination campaign, DMK president M.K. Stalin and the party’s younker helping caput and existent Leader of the Opposition Udhayanidhi Stalin had said if radical ballot for the AIADMK, the BJP unsocial volition regularisation Tamil Nadu. “But aft the predetermination results, the DMK besides attempted to articulation hands with the AIADMK,” helium said.
To a question connected whether the rebel AIADMK MLAs would beryllium portion of Mr. Vijay’s Cabinet, Mr. Arjuna said C.Ve. Shanmugam, who heads a faction of the AIADMK, had said their volition was not to unafraid ministerial berths.
“When the [rebel] AIADMK legislators met us, they said they wanted to fulfil the dreams of Puratchi Thalaivar [M.G. Ramachandran] and Puratchi Thalaivi Amma [Jayalalithaa], and prevention the party,” helium said.
He said AIADMK cadres believed it was a historical blunder for the enactment to clasp talks with the DMK to question its enactment for forming the government. According to Mr. Arjuna, the TVK viewed the rebel AIADMK faction successful a affable mode and that Mr. Shanmugam would determine connected the aboriginal people of enactment for their faction.
