Nine LS seats, where DMK, AIADMK and BJP are fighting it out, saw a mixed bag of results in 2009 and 2014

Nine LS seats, where DMK, AIADMK and BJP are fighting it out, saw a mixed bag of results in 2009 and 2014

A mixed bag of results was witnessed in nine Lok Sabha constituencies in the 2009 and 2014 polls where the three lead parties of their respective fronts – DMK, AIADMK and BJP are contesting now.  In 2009, the ruling DMK won in six while the AIADMK-headed front, three. The former bagged North Chennai, Vellore, Tiruvannamalai, … Read more

Womenfolk in T.N. can’t be deceived by reducing LPG price by ₹100 before polls: DMK MP Kanimozhi

Womenfolk in T.N. can’t be deceived by reducing LPG price by ₹100 before polls: DMK MP Kanimozhi

DMK MP Kanimozhi addressing at a public meeting held in view of International Women’s Day celebrations, organized by DMK held in Dindigul on March 9, 2024 | Photo Credit: G. Karthikeyan Reducing the price of LPG refill by ₹100 prior to the Lok Sabha election wouldn’t attract womenfolk in Tamil Nadu and the BJP should … Read more

DMK to hold public meetings to explain T.N. Budget to public on March 2, 3 and 4

DMK to hold public meetings to explain T.N. Budget to public on March 2, 3 and 4

The DMK will organise public meetings in various locations across Tamil Nadu on March 2, 3 and 4 to explain the State government’s Budget for 2024-25 to the people. DMK general secretary Duraimurugan will address a meeting in Chengalpattu on March 4. The party also released a list of Ministers and senior party functionaries, who … Read more

Panneerselvam slams DMK regime for being ‘careless’ over A.P.’s Palar check-dam project

Panneerselvam slams DMK regime for being ‘careless’ over A.P.’s Palar check-dam project

The AIADMK’s former coordinator, O. Pannerselvam, on Tuesday, February 27, 2024, criticised the DMK regime for its “carelessness” over the Andhra Pradesh government’s proposed project to build a check-dam on the Palar river.   In a statement, he said the project launch had exposed a “lack of concern” on the part of Water Resources Minster … Read more

DMK to hold meetings in all Lok Sabha constituencies

DMK to hold meetings in all Lok Sabha constituencies

Duraimurugan | Photo Credit: C. VENKATACHALAPATHY The DMK will organise public meetings dubbed ‘The Voice of Stalin to Retrieve Rights’ in all Lok Sabha constituencies on February 16, 17 and 18, and party seniors will speak at the them. The meetings will be held along the lines of Vidiyalai Nokki Stalinin Kural organised across the … Read more

TNCC chief promises party members that he would seek a Chennai LS seat from DMK

TNCC chief promises party members that he would seek a Chennai LS seat from DMK

The Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC) president, K.S. Alagiri, on January 30, said some of the Lok Sabha seat aspirants in his party were urging the leadership to ask for seats that Dravidian parties generally do not allot to allies. Referring to DMK Minister R.S. Rajakannappan’s recent comments that the Congress existed only to get … Read more

DMK government failed to do any good for farmers: Edappadi Palaniswami

DMK government failed to do any good for farmers: Edappadi Palaniswami

Edappadi K Palaniswami. File | Photo Credit: M. Srinath AIADMK general secretary and Leader of Opposition Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Sunday, January 28, 2024 accused the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) government of seeing the farmers as an enemy and failed to do anything for their welfare. The government had also failed to take any steps … Read more

T.N. Rains | AIADMK slams DMK government, calls it “incompetent” to tackle waterlogging in Chennai

T.N. Rains | AIADMK slams DMK government, calls it “incompetent” to tackle waterlogging in Chennai

AIADMK leader Edappadi K. Palaniswami | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Thursday, November 30, 2023 accused the DMK regime of being “administratively incompetent” to tackle the rains in Chennai.  In a message on his social media handle, Mr. Palaniswami said the DMK government had been boasting of having taken up … Read more

DMK councillor from Coimbatore, six-month-old daughter die in accident near Tiruppur

DMK councillor from Coimbatore, six-month-old daughter die in accident near Tiruppur

The luxury sedan, involved in the accident, in which five young persons were travelling, in Eettiveerampalayam near Tiruppur, on Monday, November 13, 2023 | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement A councillor of the Chettipalayam town panchayat, a suburb of Coimbatore city, and his six-month-old daughter died, after the car they were travelling in was rear-ended by … Read more