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Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam has issued a directive banning its cadre from erecting banners, hoardings, and placards in public spaces across Tamil Nadu — delivering on a key TVK campaign pledge and marking a sharp departure from the banner and hoarding culture that has long dominated the state's political landscape.
DMK legislature party leader Udhayanidhi Stalin signals the party's dual opposition strategy: confrontation on ideological and cultural issues — including the Vande Mataram protocol controversy — while maintaining institutional cooperation on governance, as the DMK's 59 MLAs position themselves as a sharply combative watchdog.
The legal battle between the two AIADMK factions intensifies as Edappadi K. Palaniswami presses ahead with the disqualification petition against 25 rebel MLAs who cross-voted in the May 13 floor test. Palaniswami accuses the rebels of acting for "personal gains"; Shanmugam's faction counters that opposing EPS was about protecting the AIADMK's founding anti-DMK principles.
Tamil Nadu CM C. Joseph Vijay has urged External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar to take immediate diplomatic steps to secure the release of fishermen arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy and retrieve seized boats — with 54 Tamil Nadu fishermen currently in Sri Lankan prisons and 264 boats impounded.
Tamil Nadu CM C. Joseph Vijay is scheduled to make his first official three-day visit to New Delhi before the end of May, meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and key Union ministers to discuss Tamil Nadu's fiscal situation, fishermen welfare, and infrastructure projects.
TVK allies CPI, CPI(M) and VCK continue to press the Vijay government over the Vande Mataram–Tamil Thai Vazhthu protocol issue from the swearing-in ceremony. Minister Aadhav Arjuna has pledged that Tamil Thai Vazhthu will come first at future events — but political watchers note the same Governor Arlekar will preside over Kerala's swearing-in tomorrow.
Tamil Nadu CM C. Joseph Vijay joins Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Congress president Kharge, and chief ministers of Karnataka, Telangana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand and J&K at V.D. Satheesan's swearing-in on May 18 — turning it into a high-profile INDIA alliance gathering.
The AIADMK under Edappadi K. Palaniswami formally escalated the anti-defection case against the 25 rebel MLAs who voted for the TVK government in defiance of the party whip issued on May 12, seeking their disqualification from the Assembly.