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Tamil Nadu Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar administered the oath of office to TVK chief Vijay at 10 am on Sunday in Chennai. TVK chief C Joseph Vijay welcomes Tamil Nadu Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Chennai. The Governor has given Vijay time till May 13 to seek the trust vote.

After VCK and IUML announced support to TVK to form government, actor-politician Vijay met Governor Arlekar on Saturday and handed him letters from the parties promising unconditional support. Vijay met Tamil Nadu Congress Committee chief K. Selvaperunthagai and Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) state secretary P. Met the Governor along with leaders of allies including Shanmugam.

VCK and Indian Union Muslim League have two seats each. With the support of both the parties, Tamilaga Vetri Kazhagam’s (TVK) seat count has now reached 120 in the 234-member assembly. The founding leader of TVK had urged the Governor to formally invite him to form the government. Vijay had come to meet the Governor at Lok Bhavan for the fourth time.

Vijay-led TVK, which emerged as the largest party in the assembly elections, initially had 108 seats, 10 less than the majority mark. After TVK won its first assembly election, it had approached DMK’s allies Congress, CPI, CPI(M) and VCK and sought their support to form the government. However, Vijay, who has won two seats, will have to give up one of them. With this the number of party MLAs will reduce to 107. Parties supporting TVK – Congress has 5 MLAs and CPI, CPI(M) and VCK have 2 MLAs each.