Watch: Two seats, bigger stakes: Vijay’s first bypoll test | Focus Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu’s archetypal Assembly by-elections since the 2026 elections are a cardinal trial for Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay and the ruling TVK. With erstwhile AIADMK MLAs contesting arsenic TVK candidates successful Madurantakam and Dharapuram, the bypolls volition trial elector sentiment connected governmental defections, the spot of the AIADMK and the stableness of Tamil Nadu’s caller conjugation government.