India, July 13 -- The gift of "Sofa" with a stack of money to a politician in Tamil Nadu is a satirical parody of the horse-trading underway ever since actor-politician C Joseph Vijay-led Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) has assumed power with 108 seats (in reality with 106 voting members after one member was barred and Vijay vacated one seat) and still short of simple majority in the state legislature with 234 members. The TVK government secured 144 votes on the May 13, 2026 confidence motion in the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly implying that a substantial number of legislators outside the formal alliance also backed the government. The voting process revealed subsequently that 21 rebel MLAs from the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazha...