A writ petition was filed within the Supreme Court docket on Saturday (Could 9, 2026) to declare a Could 7 Press launch of Tamil Nadu Governor Rajendra Arlekar, denying a declare made by Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) occasion president C. Joseph Vijay to kind the federal government, as unconstitutional and arbitrary.

The petition filed by retired IPS officer M. Ramasubramani, by advocate G. Siva Bala Murugan, submitted that the Governor’s refusal to ask Mr. Vijay, as the top of the one largest occasion which emerged after the 2026 Meeting elections, was a hostile transfer in opposition to parliamentary democracy.

It stated the Governor’s insistence that Mr. Vijay ought to show the “requisite majority help” important for formation of presidency was opposite to the settled constitutional conventions governing formation of presidency in a hung Meeting.

The petition stated the press launch successfully foreclosed the constitutional course of with out allowing the one largest political occasion to determine its majority on the ground of the Legislative Meeting.

“It’s well-settled that in a parliamentary democracy ruled by the Structure, the query whether or not a political occasion or coalition instructions majority help can solely be decided on the ground of the Home and never by the use of subjective satisfaction, non-public consultations or roving enquiry undertaken at Lok Bhavan,” Mr. Ramasubramani submitted.

The Governor can’t terminate the constitutional course of with out a ground take a look at when a viable declare to majority exists.

The sooner petition by Ezhilarasi P., who stated she was a TVK occasion member, argued that the Governor was “responsibility sure” to ask Mr. Vijay, because the chief of the one largest occasion, to kind the federal government within the State and later show the bulk on the ground of the Home. — Krishnadas Rajagopal