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Jothi Pandian and Shiva Kumar, two young men who run a small office a couple of kilometres from the Saint Gobain glass factory, off the Chennai-Sriperumbudur highway, couldn’t agree if sitting Lok Sabha MP and DMK candidate DM Kathir Anand would retain his seat in Vellore, a neighbouring constituency.
Is the BJP trying to pick up the thread that Kamaraj lost? The legendary Congressman was the last non-Dravidian electoral icon in the state. Barring the very few in their late seventies, most Tamil voters wouldn’t remember him. After the debacle in the 1967 Assembly polls where he himself lost, the Tamil Nadu Congress hasn’t seen a matching vote catcher so far.
The election fever is catching up, with the first phase of Lok Sabha elections 2024 less than three weeks away.
CAN AN uninhabited island, spread over 285 acres, 1.6 km in length and no more than 300 metres broad, give the BJP the space it needs to plant its feet in Tamil Nadu?
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders slammed DMK minister Anitha Radhakrishnan for allegedly abusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Tamil Nadu BJP chief K Annamalai shared a viral video of the minister and accused him of using derogatory remarks against PM Modi.
FOR HIS first political rally in Tamil Nadu after becoming the Prime Minister in 2014, Narendra Modi chose Coimbatore. For his first political engagement in the state after the Lok Sabha election schedule was announced, Modi again chose Coimbatore. When he held his road show in the town on Monday, it was the grandest such by the party in Tamil Nadu.
Across the country, regional parties, or those parties that have a presence in just one or two states, have had to make a choice between either tying up with the BJP, or if ideologically opposed to it, choosing the Congress corner. Several, though, have found safety in staying in the middle, while leaning more towards the dominant BJP at the Centre.
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.