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Tamil Nadu polls saw higher spend on Google ads than 2019 general elections

Tamil Nadu polls saw higher spend on Google ads than 2019 general elections
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A woman shows her inked finger after casting her vote at a polling station during the Tamil Nadu elections
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The intensity of competition in Tamil Nadu, the wide reach of digital platforms, and the high stakes involved in gaining control over one of India’s richest states may be driving parties to spend more on social media and online campaigns
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As more and more Indians get connected to the net, online propaganda and political messaging have never appeared as important as it does today. Nowhere is this more evident than Tamil Nadu, where political parties have spent at least ₹33 crore on Google ads. In past state elections in Maharashtra (2019) and Delhi (2020), such ads were worth less than ₹5 crore, a Mint analysis of Google ads data shows.

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Tamil Nadu elections: Make-or-break battle for EPS and Stalin

Tamil Nadu elections: Make-or-break battle for EPS and Stalin
On the governance front, the State needs a stable government now more than ever, with the pandemic dealing a severe blow to the economy and public life.
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DMK president MK Stalin addressing the people during a campaign at Bodinayakanur in Theni district on Wednesday | EXPRESS
By Express News Service
CHENNAI: April 6, 2021 might be the beginning of a new chapter in Tamil Nadu’s political history. Tuesday’s polls might not just decide the course of the next five years, but the decades ahead. The electorate of the State has been deprived of its trusted choices of M Karunanidhi and J Jayalalithaa, and the popular choice is now between DMK’s MK Stalin and AIADMK’s Edappadi K Palaniswami.

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'Where's our bribe?': Locals protest ahead of polls in Rasipuram- The New Indian Express

On receiving information, Rasipuram police officials rushed to the spot and brought in five protesters for inquiry.
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By Express News Service
NAMAKKAL: The days of cash-for-votes being an underhanded, hush-hush affair seem to be far behind. On Monday, a few residents of Pattanam village in Rasipuram Assembly constituency staged a road roko, brazenly demanding money from political parties in return for their votes.
The protesters parked their two-wheelers across the road to block traffic, and raised slogans questioning why they had not received a single rupee from the parties yet. “With just a few hours left for the polls, political parties are refusing to give us money. But other people in and around the village got Rs 500 to Rs 1,000 per vote,” they said. The protest shocked many as the Election Commission of India has been raising awareness against taking bribes for votes.

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Tamil Nadu Polls: Red or Green, who will sweep Delta clean?- The New Indian Express

Tamil Nadu Polls: Red or Green, who will sweep Delta clean?
However, another minister with the same name, MR Vijayabaskar has been holding high-decibel campaigns in Karur against DMK’s Senthil Balaji.
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TIRUCHY: If the Chief Minister’s carefully constructed ‘farmer’ image finds takers among voters, it would make the Delta region easily winnable for the ruling AIADMK. But, if the Opposition’s campaign against the three contentious farm laws and the continuing farmers’ protest at Delhi borders raises concerns among farmers, it would then become a closely-watched battle. While the AIADMK candidates emphasised on the pro-agriculture measures taken by Palaniswami such as Kudimaramathu works, declaration of the Delta region as a Protected Zone, waiver of crop loans, the DMK speakers countered it by listing the ill-effects of farm laws, the support AIADMK MPs extended to it in the Parliament, improper execution of loan waiver, and the threat posed by the Electricity (amendment) Bill to free power supply.

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Time for voters to have their say in Tamil Nadu

Time for voters to have their say in Tamil Nadu
As for Stalin, his party has been out of power for two consecutive terms and is confident of victory now, keen as it is on exploiting anti-incumbency in a wave-less election.
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DMK president MK Stalin (L) and Tamil Nadu CM Edappadi Palaniswami (File photo | EPS)
A total of 3,998 candidates have taken position after high-octane political campaigning reached a heady crescendo during the last few days before one of the most riveting poll battles in the history of Tamil Nadu, scheduled for today. They will be vying for the preference of 3,19,39,112 women, 3,09,23,651 men and 7,192 transgender people to be elected across 234 constituencies to the 16th Legislative Assembly. For AIADMK’s Edappadi K Palaniswami and the DMK’s M K Stalin, it’s a do-or-die battle. Palaniswami’s last-minute announcements of 10.5% Vanniyar quota and 7.5% reservation for government school students in NEET as also a slew of welfare programmes are vote catchers.

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Officials still blind to voting needs of disabled?

Demand for form-7A to be made available as text document to help visually-challenged still pending
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By Express News Service
CHENNAI: Activists for differently-abled persons have been struggling for five years to make form-7A on the election commission website accessible to visually-challenged citizens to cast their vote independently.The document, which contains details of the candidate’s name, photo, party, symbol and other details is currently available as an image document on www.elections.tn.gov.in.
The image cannot be accessed by visually-challenged voters on the screen. If available as a text document, screen readers can read out the form to visually-challenged individuals to communicate the displayed text, thereby giving them access to cast their vote.

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BJP's poll-plank in Tamil Nadu devoid of hardcore Hindu politics unlike West Bengal, Kerala- The New Indian Express

CHENNAI: BJP’s campaign recipe in Tamil Nadu, compared to West Bengal, Kerala, has been slightly different.
The saffron party which is known to evoke Hindu sentiments and issues relating to temple and cow politics has somehow kept those topics in low key in this State during campaigns.
In fact, just like their principal ally AIADMK, the BJP too has continued its attack on DMK mainly on dynastic politics, stance on women issues, rowdy-rule while discourses regarding religion have been confined to social media campaigns and media advertisements.
While the BJP raked up the Sabarimala issue as a poll plank in Kerala, terming that the LDF “crushed” the sentiments of Hindu devotees in the whole of South India, in West Bengal, senior BJP leaders have openly criticized CM Mamata Banerjee as a “Muslim appeaser”.

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She is corrupt, don't vote for her: Mother's allegation on her DMK candidate daughter- The New Indian Express

Kamala says her daughter Poongothai will even sell Alangulam if she is elected MLA

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Tamil Nadu elections: Split votes and the 'independent' conundrum- The New Indian Express

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 who are namesakes have engineered vote split by confusing voters and have altogether polled more votes than the losing margin of runners-up.

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Tamil Nadu elections: Putting a stop to flow with 'flying' colours- The New Indian Express

Tamil Nadu elections: Putting a stop to flow with ‘flying’ colours
Meanwhile in Tiruppur, the Cheyur police arrested two men who stored 2,051 liquor bottles, which were allegedly meant to be given to voters on polling day.
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By Express News Service
KRISHNAGIRI/COIMBATORE/SALEM/TIRUPATTUR: With the polls just three days away, Saturday witnessed a marked increase in the value of bribes detected and confiscated from political party workers across the State.
At Danishpet in Salem district, flying squad officials found 300 mock voting pads – bearing the name of AMMK’s Harur Assembly constituency candidate Murugan – in a car.

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