India, April 25 -- The 2026 Assembly election may not immediately dethrone the Dravidian majors, but it signals the beginning of a more fragmented and competitive era

Tamil Nadu voted to choose its next Assembly on April 23, 2026, and the results would be out on May 4, with the rest of the States that went to polls in the recently held Assembly election. However, the southern politics is way different from what it is in the North. The biggest difference is the absence of the largest ruling party at the centre - the Bharatiya Janata Party, which has sway over most of the northern states, yet still needs to make its presence felt in the southern states. 

For long, the Dravadian politics has been dominated by cult figures like MGR, Ja...