In seat facing Lanka, highlight is OPS’s fight, not Sethusamudram or Katchatheevu
LOCATED deep in southern Tamil Nadu, a state where it is just beginning to make an impact, Ramanathapuram has long been on the BJP’s radar.
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Today in Politics: Last leg of Tamil Nadu campaign, Amit Shah in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra
Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s campaign schedule on Thursday is packed with temple visits and rallies.
Blending caste with faith, BJP tries to open a space in Tamil Nadu
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.
In Tamil Nadu, BJP rides on stormy petrel Annamalai in bid to disrupt Dravidian play
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.
‘It’s a battle for democracy. But, we have a strong team… Akhilesh, Kejriwal, Uddhav… a dynamic young leader like Rahul’: M K Stalin
With a photo of his father, the late DMK stalwart and Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi, looking over his shoulder at his Chhitaranjan Salai residence here, CM M K Stalin exudes confidence ahead of, what he calls, “a second struggle for Independence” in the coming elections.
Decode Politics: Why Katchatheevu, a speck of an island, is causing a splash in Tamil Nadu poll waters
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?
Decode Politics: Behind PMK pitch for parental nod for under-21 marriage, caste faultlines, ‘love jihad’ spectre
The Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK), a key BJP ally in Tamil Nadu, has reignited a row by promising, in its manifesto for the April 19 Lok Sabha elections, to make parental consent mandatory for marriages of individuals under the age of 21 years.
Arvind Kejriwal in prison: For many politicians before him, jail has been no bar
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) last Thursday, has refused to resign from his post and is communicating with his ministers on matters of governance from custody.