 Of the 234 assembly constituencies in Tamil Nadu, the DMK Alliance won a clear majority with 159 seats. The AI-ADMK-LED front won only 75 seats in this concluding 16th legislative assembly election. But it was not a sweeping swing towards the DMK-LED secular progressive alliance which got 44.37% of votes. Not far behind is the AI-ADMK-LED National Democratic Alliance which got 39.73% of votes. The DMK and the AI-ADMK have swapped places in the assembly. The former is becoming the ruling party after 10 years and the AI-ADMK is pushed to take the position of the opposition. Newsweek spoke to political analyst Ramu Maniwanam, professor and head of department of politics and public administration at University of Madras. The resurgence of DMK in the last 10 years can singularly attributed to the thrust that the BJP is making in Tamil Nadu politics. It is the DMK alone can withstand and resist the coming or the entry of BJP in Tamil Nadu politics. The whole politics has turned not simply because of any kind of polarization between DMK and AI-ADMK. That polarization is electorally correct but politically the ideological conflict between the BJP and Dravidian parties and Dravidian social boys that results in the emphatic victory of the DMK whether BJP is a burden to AI-ADMK or AI-ADMK would have performed better. The fact that if BJP had not been around, AI-ADMK would not have just stayed as one party in the last four years. It is the BJP which has kind of kept it in one bound for its own purpose and bridged the factions of Panir Silvam and Yadapati and then made the consulate with the very open involvement of the BJP. BJP was literally ruling the state for the last four years and then there is no secret about it. That factor has become a burden but as far as the BJP's role and being part with the AI-ADMK survival is that it cannot be separated actually. Then why AI-ADMK surprised everyone by its performance is that I attribute two reasons. One is that Yadapati has fairly addressed himself as a serious leader of the AI-ADMK party, the Legislature and as the Chief Minister and then secondly, if you look at the votes and the seats that they have received in the Assembly election 2021, this is largely from the western districts where there is a cost is a very important factor. The Congress won 18 out of the 25 seats it's contested as part of the DNK Allianz. Given that in the 2016 Assembly elections Congress won only 8 out of the 41 seats it's contested, this is a big win for the party. Another national party, the Bharati Janata party, after much fanfare and popular candidates won only 4 out of the 20 seats it's contested as part of the alliance with the ruling AI-ADMK. The BJP has won seats in Tamil Nadu after 20 years but not a considerable change in its vote share even besides the alliance with the AI-ADMK. How much and how far that the BJP will continue to stay and influence the AI-ADMK because I feel that the AI-ADMK party many leaders and party members are also of the opinion which they don't dare to say it now but they feel that the BJP factor has affected their prospects in the 2021 Assembly elections but now for BJP they have got what they want they have achieved the presence in Tamil Nadu and like you know they believe that it's a matter of time then we know we'll just climb and make a high stake in Tamil Nadu politics. All the assembly seats in Tamil Nadu have been shared between the two big Dravidian party-led alliances this time. The other friends and small parties that were in the fray lost quite miserably. But you know my question to the Naam Tamil Nadu country is that like you know you what kind of role that they have in every election coming into this election and do they want to be the vote cutters for on behalf of somebody and or they want to present themselves as a genuine alternative. I think like you know they continue to function as a vote cutter though they project themselves as the alternative. I think that was the major shortcoming in Kamalasen, Kamalasen's approach that like you know you can't just kind of like you know go and identify with some work that has been done by somebody and like you know picking people who are popular and bringing them along in the same platform that is not the actual change, transformation politics. You have to go to the people, you have to identify the issues, you I mean his party and his cadres should work among the people and I also think that like you know Kamalasen at large was a one constituency wonder. You can't reduce the entire party to one constituency fight. Though the two Dravidian parties continue to bag a majority of the seats in the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, the coming days are not easy. Stalin is taking oath as Chief Minister at a time when the COVID-19 cases are steadily spiking in Tamil Nadu. He has been a vocal critique of Eddapadi administration's base of tackling the pandemic and Stalin has to prove himself now. As far as the AIADM team is concerned, it looks like the BJP may have to pay the big brother to pick the leadership of opposition. What TTV, Nagaran, Seemaan and Kamalasen are going to do next, we have to wait and watch.