The governor has dissolved the assembly. Later, he left for Kerala, where he also holds the charge of governor.
On Wednesday, Vijay staked a claim to form the next government in a meeting with the governor. TVK General Secretary Aadhav Arjuna will also meet the governor along with their legal team, sources said.
The Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK), which emerged as the single-largest party winning 108 seats, needed at least 10 seats to hit the majority mark of 118. With the Congress's five, the number rose to 112, excluding one of the two seats that Vijay won, leaving the TVK with a gap of six seats to fill till the finishing line.
The next obvious step is for Vijay to prove his government's majority in the house. There is no clarity yet on who, apart from the Congress, including independents, would come on board to be part of Team Vijay.
scheduled to meet in Chennai on Wednesday to make a decision, but that meeting has been postponed to Friday as two Left parties have also sought time till May 8 to decide what to do. The Left's four seats are two each from the Communist Party of India and the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
The DMK bagged 59 seats, AIADMK 47, PMK 4, IUML 2, CPI 2, CPI(M) 2, and the BJP, DMDK and AMMK a seat each.
