{"id":104614,"date":"2026-04-19T08:35:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T08:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/vijays-tvk-backs-independent-candidate-in-salems-edappadi-calls-for-fitting-lesson\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T08:35:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T08:35:49","slug":"vijays-tvk-backs-independent-candidate-in-salems-edappadi-calls-for-fitting-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/vijays-tvk-backs-independent-candidate-in-salems-edappadi-calls-for-fitting-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"Vijay\u2019s TVK backs independent candidate in Salem\u2019s Edappadi, calls for \u2018fitting lesson\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actor-turned-politician Vijay&#8217;s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) will back an independent candidate in Edappadi after their nominee&#8217;s disqualification. Vijay urged voters to support K Premakumar, calling it a &#8220;fitting lesson&#8221; against alleged suppression of their symbol. This strategic shift occurs as TVK, launched in February, contests its first Assembly elections against established Dravidian parties.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor-turned-politician Vijay&#8217;s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) will back an independent candidate in Edappadi after their nominee&#8217;s disqualification. Vijay urged voters to support K Premakumar, calling it a &#8220;fitting lesson&#8221; against alleged suppression of their symbol. This strategic shift occurs as TVK, launched in February, contests its first Assembly elections against established Dravidian parties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":104615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}