{"id":16312,"date":"2026-05-07T14:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=16312"},"modified":"2026-05-07T14:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:47:14","slug":"130901867-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=16312","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;He should lead&#8217;: BJP state vice president Khushbu Sundar backs TVK chief Vijay for CM | India News &#8211; The Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130902534,imgsize-867306,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/-.jpg\" alt=\"'He should lead': BJP state vice president Khushbu Sundar backs TVK chief Vijay for CM\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: The vice president of Bharatiya Janata Party&#8217;s Tamil Nadu state unit Khushbu Sundar expressed her support for TVK chief Vijay for the chief ministerial post as the latter has hit a roadblock in government formation in the state after falling short of majority by 5 MLAs.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>&#8220;As a citizen of Tamilnadu State, when people have chosen their CM, he should lead,&#8221; Khushbu Sundar said in a post on X.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>BJP has won one seat in Tamil Nadu, in alliance with AIADMK. Congress has alleged that the delay in inviting Vijay to form the government is a calculated move by the BJP-led Centre, describing it as an \u201cundemocratic\u201d attempt to undermine the people\u2019s mandate.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/>Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar called Vijay twice in two days and asked him to submit letters of support from allied MLAs and other partners, effectively establishing a working majority before an invitation to form the government.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/>Neither the DMK nor the AIADMK managed to secure a majority, resulting in a hung assembly. Smaller parties such as the Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi, Pattali Makkal Katchi, Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam and Amma Makkal Munnettra Kazagam are now being seen as potential kingmakers in the government formation process.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/he-should-lead-bjp-state-vice-president-khushbu-sundar-backs-tvk-chief-vijay-for-cm\/articleshow\/130901867.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The vice president of Bharatiya Janata Party&#8217;s Tamil Nadu state unit Khushbu Sundar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[37718,724,723,37721,719,720,721,37719,37720,722,14347],"class_list":["post-16312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bjp-tamil-nadu-government-formation","tag-breaking-news","tag-google-news","tag-governor-invites-vijay","tag-india","tag-india-news","tag-india-news-today","tag-khushbu-sundar-support-for-vijay","tag-tamil-nadu-hung-assembly","tag-today-news","tag-tvk-chief-vijay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}