MK Stalin is the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) candidate for the upcoming assembly elections, which are going to be held on April 23 covering a total of 234 constituencies in the state in a single phase. Counting of votes is to take place on May 4.

Chennai: As Tamil Nadu Assembly elections approach, Chief Minister MK Stalin on Monday filed his nomination from Kolathur constituency. After filing nomination, CM Stalin held a road show to interact with the public. “Our victory will be great. This time I am seeing huge support compared to the last three times. This is the United Progressive Alliance.” Tamil Nadu Fighting against Delhi. This time the victory is going to be huge,” Stalin told ANI. The DMK will contest 164 of the 234 seats in the state, while 70 seats have been allotted to its alliance partners. These partners include Congress Party with 28 seats, Communist Party of India (CPI) with 5 seats, Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) with 5 seats, VCK with 8 seats and MDMK with 4 seats.Other smaller parties in the alliance include Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK) with 10 seats, Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) with 2 seats and several other regional parties.AIADMK has also released the second list of 127 candidates for the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, taking the total number of party candidates to 150. The second list features a mix of sitting MLAs, former MLAs and new faces as the party hopes to return to rule under the leadership of E Palaniswami. Yesterday, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Stalin unveiled the party’s “superstar manifesto” for the 2026 assembly elections, triggering a sharp political clash with the opposition AIADMK and BJP dismissing the document as a “copy-paste” exercise and accusing the ruling party of indulging in “sticker politics”, while DMK leaders defended it as a comprehensive, people-driven roadmap based on the Dravidian model. Did it.