Power Has Changed the Script: TVK’s First Real Test of Political Morality
Power Has Changed the Script: TVK’s First Real Test of Political Morality. By Jameel Aahmed Milansaar. Tamil Nadu politics has stepped into dangerous territory. The resignation of four AIADMK MLAs and their sudden migration to the ruling TVK under Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay may be dressed up as political realignment, but the public is not naïve. People have watched this script before in State after State — elected representatives abandoning the mandate they received, only to conveniently land beside power. What makes this episode more troubling is not merely the defections themselves, but the hypocrisy surrounding them. TVK was projected as a fresh alternative, a movement supposedly built on transparency, dignity, and clean governance. Vijay’s political rise carried the emotional investment of ordinary people tired of cynical power games. Yet within a short span, the same culture of backroom engineering that TVK once appeared to reject has entered its own corridors. This is exactl...
