India, May 10 -- As TVK chief C Joseph Vijay took oath as Tamil Nadu's chief minister on Sunday morning, a message and brief advice from his predecessor, MK Stalin, followed. Stalin, the DMK supremo, congratulated him and welcomed the announcements he made immediately upon taking office.

But Stalin was quick to follow with some advice, particularly with respect to the finances of the state.

"Don't start saying right away that the government has no money. It does have it. What's needed is the will to give it to the people, and the ability to govern," Stalin said in a post on X.

Stalin went ahead and mentioned Vijay's speech at the oath-taking ceremony, where he said that "the previous government left behind a debt of 10 lakh crore rupee...