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DMK leader and former Union Minister A Raja has said India is not a nation in conventional terms with one language, one culture and one tradition. It was not a country, but a subcontinent, he said.
A drug scandal, an absconding movie producer, and Tamil Nadu politics. With weeks to go for the Lok Sabha elections, the DMK has been put into an uncomfortable position over the alleged involvement of Chennai-based producer A K Jaffer Sadiq in an international drug smuggling ring, giving ammunition to Opposition parties AIADMK and the BJP to target the M K Stalin-led party.
In a development apparently anticipated by the Tamil Nadu Congress for weeks, sitting party MLA Vijayadharani has joined the BJP, marking a significant defection from the grand old party.
The controversy that erupted in Tamil Nadu over the “demotion” of Minister Palanivel Thiaga Rajan, also known as PTR, in May last year, when Chief Minister M K Stalin shifted him from the Finance ministry to the Information Technology (IT) ministry – in the wake of allegations that PTR had cast negative light on the DMK’s first family in purported audio clips released by state BJP chief K Annamalai — was put to rest Friday, when the DMK chief himself commended Rajan at an event in Chennai.
With the Lok Sabha elections round the corner, the DMK is looking to expand its alliance and has reportedly offered actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan’s Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) the option of either contesting one Lok Sabha seat or accepting a post-poll Rajya Sabha berth, in exchange of extensive campaigning across the state for the alliance.
The All India Congress Committee (AICC) leadership’s decision to replace K S Alagiri with K Selvaperunthagai as the Tamil Nadu party chief has evoked mixed reactions among the state party leaders owing to Selvaperunthagai’s vocal position on the Dalit issues and his past association with Tamil nationalism or even being labelled as an “LTTE sympathiser”.
THE fact that two leading figures of the Tamil Nadu BJP, state chief K Annamalai and Union minister L Murugan, will not be contesting the Lok Sabha elections is being seen as a sign that the party’s plans for the state, where it is trying to make inroads, have hit a bump.
As the countdown to the Lok Sabha elections begins, the stage is set for a high-stakes chess game in Tamil Nadu. With the DMK’s secular alliance holding firm in the state, the Opposition’s strategy hinges on the AIADMK that exited the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) last September.