India, April 22 -- TVK chief Vijay on Tuesday asserted that traditional political calculations and alliance strategies have been rendered obsolete by a generational shift in the electorate.

Addressing his final campaign rally in Chennai, the actor-turned-politician dismissed conventional polling and "scaremongering" tactics, claiming that a massive wave of youth and women voters would dismantle the established power structure of the State's veteran parties.

"Alliance mathematics and arithmetic will be shattered. Don't believe the lies and false oaths of those who give money for votes. The scaremongering that the BJP will come won't work anymore," Vijay told a massive gathering. Targeting the ruling DMK and its leadership, the TVK chief ...