What can Vijay do if his TVK party falls short of 118 majority mark in Tamil Nadu?

Others outside these three blocs (TVK was fighting solo) did not get even a single seat.

With no single party or alliance winning enough seats to form the government, it is natural to wonder what will happen next in Tamil Nadu. Will Vijay become the first non-DMK non-AIADMK chief minister of the state since 1967? Who will he tie up with? Here are the possible scenarios:

TVK takes smaller parties with itOne thing Vijay and the TVK could do is to take the smaller parties from the DMK alliance with them to form the government. The party needs 11 MLAs to form the government. The smaller parties (including Congress) in the DMK alliance have 14.

HT earlier reported that a section of Congress wanted a pre-poll alliance with the TVK and could still support Vijay with its five members. The two Left parties (CPI and CPI(M)) each have two legislators. If these go with the TVK, Vijay would need just a couple more to form the government, which the Dalit-centric Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) could provide.