Siddharth Kharath retweetledi

Vijay's TVK, which is the single largest party, should be invited by the Governor to become the Chief Minister and form the government in Tamil Nadu.
The Governor cannot not withhold the invitation to Vijay over his "doubts of TVK not having majority figures." Under Article 164 (2), Vijay and his Council of Ministers will be required to prove their majority to the confidence of the Assembly under Article 164(2).
There have been precedents -- i) Following the 1989 General Elections, Congress (I) was the single largest party with 194 seats and was first invited by the President Ramaswamy Venkataraman, but Rajiv Gandhi declined to form the government. My friend Shri VP Singh, leader of the National Front, was invited by the President to form the government and was sworn in as India's Prime Minister on December 2, 1989.
ii) Following the 1996 General Elections, BJP emerged as the single largest party but did not have the halfway numbers, which resulted in a hung parliament. Then President Shankar Dayal Sharma had invited Atal Bihari Vajpayee to form the government and Vajpayee was sworn in as Prime Minister. But resigned after 13 days, on May 28, 1996, unable to secure a majority in the No Confidence Motion in the Lok Sabha.
As the single-largest party, TVK should be rightfully invited by the Governor Rajendra Arlekar to form the government and Vijay to assume office as the next Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. He will have to prove his majority on the floor of the Assembly.
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