Kamal Ghorui
Vijay has been handed something Tamil Nadu has never given a debutant before: a 100-plus-seat mandate, and a likely shot at CM’s chair. Voters have been more than kind. Question now is what he makes of it. The quietest fact of this verdict is the obliteration of Naam Tamilar Katchi. NTK had spent more than a decade cultivating the Tamil protest vote; Seeman’s coalition of grievance and ethnic pride that reliably produced close to a tenth of the state’s vote, without ever converting it into seats.
Read full story on TOI+
END OF ARTICLE
