Political parties in Tamil Nadu including the DMK, AIADMK and BJP have started preparations for the next Parliament elections which are more than a year away. Even before the end of 2023 the parties are speaking about forming booth committees, electoral alliances and who would lead the...
Chief Minister M K Stalin’s son Udhayanidhi is in the spotlight as he becomes the third generation politician in the family to become a minister in the State Cabinet. His ability to catch votes and keep the party united through organisational skills and good rapport with senior leaders will...
The last round of elections in 2022 has given enough grounds for optimism to the ruling DMK in Tamil Nadu which hopes to share power at the Centre in 2024. Though the results of the Gujarat Assembly elections have gone on expected lines, Congress wresting power from the BJP in Himachal Pradesh...
Close on the heels of the BJP changing its politics in Tamil Nadu from playing up Hindu-ness to now taking up Tamil Nationalism, the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) too has switched to a Tamil nationalist platform from its earlier Vanniyar community plank, which did not fetch it any gains in the...
Dr J B Prashant More, a Puducherry-born, Paris-based historian, is already familiar to Inmathi readers, as in an earlier interview, he unravelled the mystery of freedom fighter Subhas Chandra Bose’s death or disappearance. An expert in Indian Muslim history, he wrote his doctoral thesis on the...
In what appears to be peace of sorts brokered by the BJP, leaders of the various AIADMK factions have stopped attacking each other after a meeting between former Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami and Governor RN Ravi on November 23. But, the meeting could have been aimed at mending fences...
