Genelia D’Souza has opened up about Thalapathy Vijay’s recent victory in the Tamil Nadu assembly elections. The two actors worked together in the 2005 film Sachein and the 2011 action-masala movie Velayudham.
Genelia congratulated Vijay and stated that his victory is a win for the people of Tamil Nadu.
“I think it’s amazing. His victory is a win for the people of Tamil Nadu, and I’m sure he will live up to the expectations people have from him,” she told India Today.
Genelia is not the first celebrity to extend support to Vijay. Previously, Kamal Haasan, Vishal, Khushbu Sundar and Indraja Shankar also congratulated the actor-turned-politician and TVK Chief.
“Not inviting him to form the government would amount to disrespecting the mandate of the people of Tamil Nadu. 233 elected members are still unable to take their oaths. This is an insult to the state; it is damage to democracy. In the S.R. Bommai case, the Supreme Court has clearly stated, ‘Majority must be proven in the Legislative Assembly, not in Raj Bhavan’. What I am speaking is not party politics. This is the policy voice of an Indian citizen. The verdict of the people of Tamil Nadu must be respected (sic)”, Haasan posted on X.
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Even though Vijay’s TVK emerged as the single-largest party with 108 seats in the 234-member Tamil Nadu Assembly, it has not been able to form a government yet. It is because it remains 10 seats short of the majority mark of 118.
Hopes of TVK founder Vijay being sworn in as Tamil Nadu chief minister further faded late Friday night after the party failed to secure the numbers required to cross the majority mark in the 234-member Assembly.
Though Vijay met the Governor at Raj Bhavan and staked a claim to form the government, uncertainty over support from key parties prevented the swearing-in from going ahead. TVK, which won 108 seats, needed additional backing to cross the majority mark of 117 after Vijay won from two constituencies.
The Congress, with five MLAs, and the CPI and CPI(M), with two MLAs each, had extended support to Vijay after breaking ranks with the DMK-led alliance. Reports also suggested that the VCK, which has two MLAs, was preparing to support the TVK.
However, the political situation changed dramatically later in the night after the IUML, another DMK ally with two MLAs, denied extending support to Vijay and reiterated its commitment to the DMK alliance. The VCK too kept its decision pending, saying talks were still on.
