LiveLaw reported that Chief Minister Joseph Vijay and Minister Aadhav Arjuna filed applications in the Madras High Court seeking rejection of election petitions challenging their 2026 Assembly victories. The court was told the applications had been filed but were yet to be numbered, and the matters were listed for August 28 and August 31. TVK Tracker records this as a legal-process update, not as a ruling on the merits of any petition. It updates the August 25 deadline file because the threatened cost stage has moved into a filing-and-listing stage. The next evidence is the numbered applications, petition pleadings, respondent replies, hearing orders, and final High Court decisions.
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