The AIADMK top leadership held seat-sharing talks with Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday for the Tamil Nadu Assembly election. Chief Minister K Palaniswsami, who is the AIADMK joint coordinator, and his deputy O Panneerselvam, who is the party s coordinator, called on Shah at a star hotel in Chennai late on Sunday. The talks that started around 10 pm were on after two hours, a day after the AIADMK and the BJP initiated the parleys. The BJP has expectations of getting 60 seats that it had identified as winnable . Shah had earlier arrived in Tamil Nadu for an election rally. The AIADMK had earlier clinched its seat-sharing deal with ally PMK, allotting 23 seats to it.
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Among many new elements, two things stand out in the great Tamilian political game.
First, how long the Dravidian politics, unique to the state, would survive as the 21 century marches on?
Second, is Prime Minister Narendra Modi, still considered an outsider in the state, effective enough to change the fundamental terms of the Tamilian politics?
In the ongoing election campaigning for the 234 seats of the assembly, people are missing the towering personalities of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) patriarch M. Karunanidhi, state’s five time chief minister who died in 2018 and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam’s (AIDMK) strong leader J. Jayalalithaa, six time chief minister who died in December 2016. There are no charismatic giants in the electoral battlefield and that’s not normal for Tamil voters.
HC sets aside fresh notices served on DMK MLAs
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The Madras High Court on Wednesday set aside fresh show cause notices issued by the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly’s Committee of Privileges to DMK president M.K. Stalin, 18 other legislators from his party and expelled MLA Ku.Ka. Selvam in September 2020 for having displayed gutkha sachets in the House in July 2017.
In her orders, Justice Pushpa Sathyanarayana observed that the Assembly should not only commence its proceedings with the Speaker reciting a couplet from Thirukkural every day, but “the legislators should also follow the Thirukkural in their day-to-day life both inside and outside the Assembly”.
Updated Feb 06, 2021 | 13:26 IST
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister E Palaniswami government announced waiver of Rs 12,110 crore farm loans availed by 16.43 lakh farmers from cooperative banks. Tamil Nadu CM Palaniswami (File photo) | Photo Credit: IANS
Chennai: Ahead of Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly elections in 2021, AIADMK gives Rs 12,110 crore loan relief to farmers. Earlier, DMK supremo MK Stalin promised in the poll-bound state to waive off all farm loans if voted to power. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami waved off Rs 12,110 crore loans availed by over 16 lakh farmers from cooperative banks.
According to the
Times of India report, Tamil Nadu CM Palaniswami made an announcement on crop loans availed by farmers and said, “I am a farmer who loves farmers. It is my first duty to address their sufferings. These farmers can continue cultivation in the coming years without any hassle.”