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Central agencies’ raids on opposition leaders around elections is BJP’s set modus operandi  Ever since Modi government has come to power, every leader who has opposed BJP or posed a threat to its interests has seen central agencies at his/her door Engagement: 0 The Income Tax raids on DMK chief MK Stalins son-in-law, just four days before the Tamil Nadu election, has prompted the opposition to claim that the BJP is resorting to its usual modus operandi of targeting opposition leade...

DMK, AIADMK took space on YouTube. Parties in Tamil Nadu, especially the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and the All-India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), picked up huge digital slots, particularly on YouTube, this Assembly election, when compared to previous years. The DMK started flooding YouTube and websites from February, while the AIADMK started a few days later. A source from the DMK’s IT wing said with people working from home after the COVID-19 outbreak, YouTube’s outreac...

Different issues, including the recently announced ‘exclusive reservation’ for Vanniyars, will challenge parties in this region of both urban and rural districts

In Tamil Nadu, environment is good politics Updated: Updated: There seems to be a shift from prioritising expressways and megaports to agriculture and forests Share Article There seems to be a shift from prioritising expressways and megaports to agriculture and forests Environmental promises have made a visible entry into Tamil Nadu’s politics, along with a guarded valourisation of farmer and fisher rights over big-ticket infrastructure and industrial projects. All key parties in the 2021 Ass...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami asked on Saturday why DMK leaders were making a big issue out of a raid at the house of party chief MK Stalins daughter, saying one need not fear if there is nothing to hide. A slew of AIADMK functionaries, including some ministers, have also been raided by Income Tax officials "but we are not saying anything", he said. Incidentally, the AIADMK moved the EC on Saturday against the searches, saying they were "unwanted" and allegedly carried out at the be...

Express News Service CHENNAI: The constitutional right for individuals to contest in elections is empowering. However, in many cases, independent candidates are caught between exercising that right and being used as pawns by big political parties to engineer vote splits. In 2016, out of the 134 seats won by AIADMK, victory margins in 32 seats for the party were less than three per cent, and it was less than five per cent in 50 seats. In many of these constituencies, a few independent candidates...

Seeing things as they are Seeing things as they are Updated: Updated: April 04, 2021 23:28 IST Reporting transgressions during the election season is not enough; the media needs to scrutinise institutional failures Share Article AAA Reporting transgressions during the election season is not enough; the media needs to scrutinise institutional failures In any election season, journalists navigate minefields — rampant misogynism, partisan considerations, ideological affiliations, and selective...

As campaigning ends in Puducherry, both NDA, Congress confident of victory ANI | Updated: Apr 04, 2021 19:23 IST Puducherry [India], April 4 (ANI): Campaigning for assembly polls in Puducherry ended on Sunday with all the players including the NDA and Congress-DMK alliances putting in their best efforts to woo voters in 30 assembly seats for the polls on April 6. The Union Territory is witnessing a tough battle essentially between these two alliances. The N...

Three of them — Umar Bahadar, Nasarullah and Samiullah — have been convicted for the first time since the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Lahore pronounced its verdict some time ago in the terror financing cases registered by the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of the Punjab police. The other two — JuD spokesperson Yahya Mujahid and senior leader Prof Zafar Iqbal — had already been convicted for many years in other terror financing cases. In the biggest city of Yangon, one group marched t...

Interview: AS Panneerselvan on Tamil politics and the disadvantages faced by regional parties The author of a new biography of M Karunanidhi talks about the complexities in negotiating with a homogenising Centre. The Hindu’s Readers’ Editor and the author of Karunanidhi: A Life, a recent biography of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, who led the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam for half a century till his death in August 2018. While the book is presented as a biography of a politi...