Tamil Nadu Assembly floor test | DMK's 'horse-trading' charge, AIADMK's split-vote & TVK's win—as it happened during Vijay's trust vote

Vijay won the floor test with the votes 144 MLAs. 22 MLAs went against the confidence motion, while five abstained from the voting.

Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay-led TVK government won the trust vote in the Tamil Nadu Assembly on Wednesday with support from parties including the Congress, VCK, and the AIADMK rebel faction led by leaders SP Velumani and C Ve Shanmugam.

CM C Joesphy Vijay's motion saw the support of 144 MLAs in favour of his resolution, while the DMK and PMK abstained from the voting.

As soon as the House convened, Chief Minister Vijay moved a vote of confidence resolution, and the MLAs belonging to all parties spoke on the motion.

Speaker JCD Prabhakar, after conducting division-wise voting, declared that the resolution moved by the chief minister seeking vote of confidence of the Assembly has won, and as many as 144 MLAs voted with the government, 22 MLAs opposed and five took a neutral stand, including the PMK and BJP.

The ministers on the floor discussed topics concerning the TVK's appointments, including the induction of Vijay's astrologer as OCD, and allegations posed by the opposition parties as the assembly took place amidst rumours of split within the AIADMK.

Here are the key highlight:

Chaos within the AIADMK

AIADMK suffered a split on Tuesday with a faction led by SP Velumani and C Ve Shanmugam rebelled against Edappadi K Palaniswami's decision of going against the ruling party.

As the assembly progressed, MLA Palaniswami said, "We will vote against the TVK government." He also wondered if it was correct for the CM to side with one group of the MLAs.

As the counting rounded up, 22 MLAs from the Palaniswami-led party pledged support to Vijay.

Those AIADMK MLAs owing allegiance to Palaniswami have said that they will vote against the government and warned that anti-defection would apply to party MLAs going against the diktat.

DMK members stage walk-out

MLAs of the main opposition DMK walked out of the Tamil Nadu Assembly before the floor test of the ruling-TVK government, as proceedings commenced. They abstained from taking part in the voting.

Vijay appointing Pandit Vettrivel as ODS

A day after the chief minister appointed his astrologer Rickey Radhan Pandit Vettrivel as his Officer on Special Duty, various party leaders slammed the TVK over this appointment.

DMK MLA Thamimun Ansari opposed the TVK government on Officer on Special Duty appointment issue and opposed the TVK government.

Vijay assured that the government will reconsider the issue.

Congress, CPI , CPI (M) pledges support, PMK abstains

Congress, CPI , CPI (M), VCK, IUML and AMMK were the parties that extended support to the government.

TVK has the support of five Congress MLAs. Besides, CPI, CPI (M), VCK and IUML-- with two MLAs each, have already announced their outside support to the maiden TVK government.

The BJP said its stand was "neutral." Anbumani Ramadoss-led PMK, which has four MLAs, said it was "abstaining."

Opposition's allegation of horse-trading

Vijay stated that his government functioned with "horse-speed" and rejected the opposition's allegation of horse-trading.

While the government functioned with "horse-speed", it does not engage in horse-trading, he said.

Vijay thanked the MLAs in the House after winning the floor test. He assured that his government will always be secular and it would continue to implement the welfare schemes launched by previous regimes.

"TVK has been chosen as the single largest party. We missed the majority mark by a small margin. This is not a minority govt, but a govt for the minorities," he said.

C Joseph Vijay assumed office as Tamil Nadu's Chief Minister on 10 May, being the first non-DMK, AIADMK CM in six decades.