Former Tamil Nadu minister KR Periyakaruppan has approached the Madras High Court after losing his constituency by a single vote to a candidate from actor-turned-chief minister C Joseph Vijay’s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK).

Periyakaruppan, from the former ruling party Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), sought an interim injunction to prevent TVK’s Seenivasa Sethupathy from taking oath or participating in assembly proceedings, which convened this morning for the first time after the polls...