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With Tamil Nadu facing a widening shortfall in Cauvery water releases from Karnataka and delta farmers anxious over the Kuruvai and Samba season, both DMK president M.K. Stalin and AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami on July 24 urged Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay's government to act more forcefully, though for differing political reasons.
AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami is expected to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Tiruchi on July 26 or 27, during a two-day visit by Modi to Tamil Nadu, in what would be their first formal meeting since the two parties renewed their alliance ahead of the 2026 Assembly election.
AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami announced on July 22 that the party's Dindigul West unit will stage a protest on July 25 over the alleged irregular registration of land belonging to the Palani Dhandayuthapani Swamy Temple trust, and called for the case to be handed to the CBI.
DMK president M.K. Stalin, back from a 16-day visit to London, held detailed talks with the party's 10-member restructuring panel at Anna Arivalayam on July 22, as the committee prepares to submit its report on overhauling the party's organisational structure in early August.
Tamil Nadu's ruling Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam, headed by Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay, said on July 22 that it wants NEET scrapped entirely rather than reformed, and called for medical education to be moved from the Concurrent List to the State List so that states can set their own admission policies.
A day after his arrest over remarks deemed threatening to Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay, DMK Vilathikulam MLA G.V. Markandeyan was remanded to 14 days of judicial custody on July 21, as DMK president M.K. Stalin sharpened his criticism of the police action and the legislator's son alleged he had been subjected to a 13-hour interrogation and intimidated by investigators.
Police arrested DMK Vilathikulam MLA G.V. Markandeyan on July 20 over remarks made at a Kovilpatti party meeting that were deemed threatening towards Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay, prompting DMK president M.K. Stalin to condemn the arrest as targeting of the opposition.
Chennai police arrested two more persons over the weekend in the case alleging a bid to poach ruling TVK MLAs with cash offers of up to Rs 35 crore, taking the total held to 14 and seizing a fresh Rs 2.80 crore in cash, as senior DMK leader V. Senthil Balaji and his brother, both out on anticipatory bail, remain named in the FIR.