Tamil Nadu: Post Jaya’s demise, can AIADMK retain its women vote bank?
The AIADMK is hoping that the government s efforts during the pandemic, as well as recent cyclones and droughts, will work in its favour. Another important factor they are counting on is female voter support.
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The AIADMK has twice come to power in successive elections in Tamil Nadu (Photo | PTI)
Mornings are a busy affair at Marina, the world’s second-longest beach, and for the people of ‘Namma’ Chennai, the go-to place for some morning breeze and exercise. As joggers and walkers pass by, Lakshmi and Saroja wait for customers for their coconut water business along the Marina sidewalk.
Election officials making arrangements in a polling station at a school in Saidapet on the eve of Tamil Nadu assembly elections on Monday.
NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu is all set to vote on Tuesday in the single-phase assembly election with the ruling AIADMK and the main opposition DMK being the main contenders. It is for the first time in several decades that the two main parties are going to polls without any charismatic leader heading them.
While the AIADMK is striving to win the third consecutive term since 2011, the DMK has aggressively campaigned to wrest power from it.
The southern state witnessed a fierce electioneering spanning over four months. A resurgent DMK eyes capturing power and a determined AIADMK is straining every nerve to retain power.
Meet the Tamil Nadu voter behind the change of guard every five years
In recent years, urban dwellers, Dalits, certain sections of other backward classes (OBCs), and the poor have demonstrated increased volatility in their political preferences in Tamil Nadu.
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UPDATED: April 5, 2021 21:22 IST
Tamil Nadu is set to go to polls on April 6 in a single phase (Photo Credits: India Today DIU)
Tamil Nadu traditionally votes for a challenger every five years. But if you thought the southern state’s anti-incumbent sentiment is overwhelming, you think wrong!
Data show that a swing of five per cent votes is all it takes to separate the winner from the loser in Tamil Nadu.
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Sasikala’s name ‘deleted’ from voters list, says her counsel
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April 06, 2021 00:38 IST
Sasikala was sad about it and legal action would be initiated against the official responsible, her counsel said.
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Sasikala was sad about it and legal action would be initiated against the official responsible, her counsel said.
The name of V K Sasikala, confidante of late Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, has been ‘removed’ from the voters list and it is an ‘injustice,’ her legal counsel said in Chennai on Monday. She was sad about it and legal action would be initiated against the official responsible, he said.