Chennai: The Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi VCK) has placed a set of demands before Thalapathy Vijay's TVK as the price for its support in forming Tamil Nadu's government - with the coalition arithmetic hinging on the VCK's two seats to cross the 118-majority mark.
Sources have told Times Now that VCK is demanding the post of Deputy Chief Minister and one additional cabinet berth. The party is also pressing for the MLA seat that will fall vacant once Vijay vacates one of his two constituencies - Perambur or Tiruchirappalli East. Additionally, since VCK chief Thol. Thirumavalavan currently holds the Chidambaram Lok Sabha seat; the party wants a guaranteed MP seat once that vacancy arises.Beyond electoral arithmetic, VCK has put legislative demands on the table - a dedicated law against caste- and religion-based discrimination and a specific legal framework criminalising honour killings, both long-standing demands of Tamil Nadu's Dalit rights movement.The last-minute demands come as TVK, which won 108 seats in the April 23 assembly election, scrambles to assemble the 118 MLAs needed to form a government. With Congress's five seats already confirmed and CPI and CPM's two seats each now on board, the combined tally stands at 119 - but that number includes VCK's two seats, making their formal backing critical.
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