M K Stalin has been able to take over the Karunanidhi legacy in a much easier  manner than many people have thought. However, his leadership is now under test with Tamil Nadu set for 20 to 24 Assembly by-elections in the next few months. Having missed the opportunity to make a bid for power...

For actor-turned politician, Rajinikanth, the dreaded moment has come much earlier than he expected. His worst fears of being at the receiving end of the main parties in Tamil Nadu have already come true, with a stinging Murasoli article describing him as a puppet in the hands of some communal...

To be or not to be, was the famous Hamletian question. To align or not to align, is the dilemma that Kamal Haasan faces, even as his party, Makkal Needhi Maiam is getting ready to contest the forthcoming bypolls to  20 Assembly constituencies in Tamil Nadu. The party has also received a boost...

The ruling AIADMK is seeking to isolate rebel leader TTV Dinakaran, by seeking to disqualify four more party MLAs who are his supporters. The AIADMK, emboldened by the recent High Court order disqualifying 18 MLAs who are supporters of Dinakaran, wants to crush the Dinakaran camp using the...

The AIADMK Edappadi government  may have got a breather through the disqualification of 18 MLAs but it will have to face a major political challenge in the form of 20 by-elections which will amount to a mini general election which can make or break the AIADMK government. Inmathi.com had already...

The verdict of the third judge, Justice Sathyanarayanan, upholding of the disqualification of 18 AIADMK MLAs, has come as a shot in the arm for the ruling AIADMK and its chief minister Edappadi Palaniswami. The AIADMK government, which has moving from one crisis to another,  can consider itself...

Most people think that the Edappadi Palaniswami government will fall once the 18 AIADMK MLAs (T T V Dinakaran supporters) win their case against the disqualification order issued by the Speaker in 2017. However, the AIADMK government has the P H Pandian formula up its sleeve to continue to be...

Just as students not ready to take on the examinations make a claim of fever to avoid the tests, the ruling AIADMK has yet again demonstrated ‘Poll Fever’ barely a day before the dates for the Tiruparankudram and Tiruvarur by-elections were to be announced by the Central Election Commission....

Deputy Chief Minister and AIADMK co-ordinator, confirming the news of his meeting with rebel leader T T V Dhinakaran, said he was loyal to the party and had no plans to oust Edappadi Palaniswamy and take over the chief ministership of the State. At a hastily arranged press conference at his...

Even as the ruling AIADMK government has set in motion plans to get four MLAs including Karunas to be disqualified to try and create an artificial majority in the Assembly, the party is rocked by speculation of a patch-up with rebel leader T T V Dhinakaran and reported meetings with Deputy...