Chennai, May 10 -- History repeats itself, as the famous saying goes. The watershed moments of 1967 and 1977, which fundamentally transformed Tamil Nadu and reshaped its political landscape, have now found an echo nearly five decades on.
In 2026, the state is witnessing a third such turning point, and this time, it is C. Joseph Vijay who is writing it.
During his his campaign for the April 23 Assembly elections, Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) founder-president and actor-politician C. Joseph Vijay repeatedly invoked those two defining moments in Tamil Nadu's political history. He cited landmark elections of 1967, when the DMK ended the long-standing Congress dominance, and 1977, when the AIADMK under M.G. Ramachandran (MGR) defeated the DM...