(This article was first published in July 2018) (The first part of the series looked at why the one nation, one poll idea is a ploy by NDA government to come back to power; the second looked at the legal complications in bringing this about; this article deals with the stand of TN parties) The...
(This article was first published in July 2018) The first part of the article dealt with how the one nation, one poll proposal may be help BJP in the short-term by giving it an advantage in the next Lok Sabha polls. The question is whether it has the intention or the stomach to really carry it...
(This article was first published in July 2018) The first thing that must be understood about the move to have simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and the state Assemblies is that it is aimed at establishing single party rule throughout the country, including in the States. Much as the BJP...
What cannot be cured, must be endured, especially in the AIADMK party. This is the moral of the story for the broken and bruised AIADMK camp, divided sharply between the Edappadi K Palaniswami (EPS) and O Panneerselvam (OPS) groups. Today's AIADMK general council meeting, where the number two...
The AIADMK is heading for yet another split as rival groups led by former chief ministers Edappadi K Palaniswami (EPS) and O Paneerselvam (OPS) jockeying for power ahead of the party's general council meeting scheduled for June 23. Palaniswami is backed by most of the district secretaries and...
Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi, who is in the thick of a controversy over his 'inaction' relating to several Bills passed by the DMK government and against whom several political activists threw black-flags towards his convoy in Mayiladuthurai on April 19, left for New Delhi on April 20,...
Relations between the ruling DMK led by M K Stalin and Tamil Nadu Governor suffered a new low with DMK leaders repeatedly raising the issue of non-cooperation on the part of the Governor, and his delay in providing assent or taking action on the Bills sent to him by the state government for...
The DMK has been able to send across a strong message of women empowerment in the party and in the administration with 11 of the new 20 Mayors being women, breaking the AIADMK's traditional women votebank carefully cultivated by MGR and Jayalalithaa. In most elections in the past, the AIADMK...
Perarivalan, who has been granted bail in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case had said in an interview to this writer more than 10 years ago that his aspiration as a youngster was to join the Indian Air Force. Fellow convict Santhan wanted nothing but reunite with his family in Sri Lanka. (The...
BJP lags behind even small parties, let alone DMK, AIADMK and Congress. It has nothing to crow about, unlike party chief Annamalai’s brags
