TN’s Politics Of Urimai

On April 23, Tamil Nadu will elect a new assembly. While news coverage has mainly focused on Bengal and SIR’s fallout, TN’s is no less consequential an election. Incumbent DMK-led alliance with Stalin as CM seeking a second consecutive term and a reconstituted AIADMK-BJP alliance with E Palaniswami as CM-face aside, the most discussed of this cycle is entrant, actor Vijay’s TVK, contesting all 234 seats, having rejected reported offers of seats and CM-ship from NDA. Seeman’s NTK, adds a fourth corner.