The stunning victory of Vijay’s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (), contesting its first Assembly election and emerging as the single-largest party with 108 seats, has fundamentally altered the grammar of the state politics. For the first time since 1967, neither the DMK nor the AIADMK stands at the centre of power with unquestioned authority. A political order that survived ideological battles, personality cults, corruption scandals, coalition compulsions and generational transitio