Tamil Nadu Assembly Elections 2021: Dravidian Politics at Crossroads
The elections to the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly provide an opportunity to reassess the fault lines in the caste, religious and ethno-geographical identities in the state and their significance in electoral politics.
Elections to the legislative assembly of Tamil Nadu were held in a single phase on 6 April 2021 with a voter turnout of 72.78%. With the counting of votes scheduled to take place on 2 May 2021, the electoral prospects of various parties and alliances are in the fray.
Some of the key pre-poll formations for the 2021 assembly elections in Tamil Nadu include:
i. The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) led by the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) and including S Ramadoss’s Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK), the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and others;
Minor parties may upset IUML calculations
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League yet to make impact in central, southern districts
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League yet to make impact in central, southern districts
The presence of the minor Muslim political parties such as the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) and the Welfare Party of India (WPI) appears to be complicating the calculations of the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) in the just-concluded Assembly polls.
Neither the SDPI nor the WPI is aligned with the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) or the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF). However, both these parties have vowed that their main purpose would be to defeat the BJP in their strongholds.
Vijayan is the last word as Brittas, Sivadasan get RS nominations
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Vijayan is the last word as Brittas, Sivadasan get RS nominations. Image Source: IANS News
Thiruvananthapuram, April 16 : Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday once again proved that he is the last word in the CPI-M when two of his close aides John Brittas, managing director of Kairali TV, the party backed TV channel and V. Sivadasan, were cleared by the party state secretariat which met here, as the nominees for the two Rajya Sabha seats.
Like Vijayan, the two also hail from Kannur. Brittas, till Kairali TV channel was launched in the late nineties, was the bureau chief of the party organ Deshabhimani and was posted in Delhi.
Kerala: LDF, UDF announce names of candidates for the Rajya Sabha polls
Kerala: LDF, UDF announce names of candidates for the Rajya Sabha polls
For the upcoming April 30 election to three Rajya Sabha seats from Kerala, the LDF is fielding John Brittas and V Sivadasan, while the UDF has named P V Abdul Wahab as its nominee.
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Election to the three Rajya Sabha seats from Kerala are to be held on April 30. (Image for representation)
The ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) and opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) has announced its candidates for the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls from Kerala.
Indian Union Muslim League legislator K.M. Shaji. File
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A special unit of the Kozhikode Vigilance and Anti Corruption Bureau (VACB) on Friday started interrogating Indian Union Muslim League legislator K.M. Shaji in connection with a case registered against him for allegedly amassing wealth beyond his lawful sources of income.
On Thursday, the VACB had served a notice on him after the agency raided his houses in Kannur and Kozhikode districts. A case was registered against him under under Section 13 (criminal misconduct by a public servant) of the Prevention of Corruption Act and Section 13 (Attachment and forfeiture of property) of the Prevention of Corruption Act (Amendment) Act.