Chennai: A week after a fiery exchange of words between Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa and Leader of Opposition Vijayakanth in the Tamil Nadu Assembly, around 1,000 DMDK functionaries and workers, including the actor-politician's close friend Ibrahim Rowther joined the ruling AIADMK on Tuesday. Among the other notables who joined the Jayalalithaa-led party include trade unionist K Velmurugan, who unsuccessfully contested the Chennai Mayor post as the DMDK candidate in last...
07:04 PM, Feb 07, 2012
Chennai: In an unusual action, Leader of Opposition in Tamil Nadu Assembly Vijaykanth was on Thursday suspended for 10 days for breach of privilege during a heated exchange with Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa. Speaker D Jayakumar's action against the actor-politician came a day after he and his DMDK MLAs were evicted en masse capping an acrimonious exchange with Jayalalithaa. As the House met for the day, Jayakumar announced Vijaykanth's suspension...
05:48 PM, Feb 02, 2012
Chennai: Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa said she was ashamed of having allied with the DMDK for the 2011 Assembly elections. "As the people of Tamil Nadu had the conviction to get rid of the corruption-ridden DMK regime and vote back the AIADMK to power, the absence of the DMDK in the alliance would not have had made a difference to electoral prospects of AIADMK. The DMDK, on the other hand,...
11:28 AM, Feb 02, 2012
Chennai: Bringing the curtains down on the uneasy alliance with actor Vijayakanth led DMDK, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Wednesday said it was a mistake by AIADMK to have aligned with him in the last year Assembly polls and she felt "ashamed" and "regretted" it. "I am ashamed and regret the fact that AIADMK faced the polls with unqualified persons who don't even know how to behave after...
03:33 AM, Feb 02, 2012
Chennai: DMDK MLAs were evicted from the Tamil Nadu Assembly on Wednesday following war of words between party leader Vijayakanth and Chief Minister and AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa. The AIADMK chief slammed Vijayakanth for his "lowly act" as he made some gestures at treasury benches and said she regretted joining hands with DMDK for the Assembly polls. Speaker D Jayakumar referred the behaviour of the opposition to the Privileges Committee. "The...
01:52 PM, Feb 01, 2012
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Governor K Rosaiah and Chief Minister Jayalalithaa led a host of leaders in extending greetings to people on the eve of harvest festival Pongal, which also marks the beginning of auspicious Tamil month 'Thai'. "On the happy occasion of Pongal - the 'Harvest Festival' and Sankranthi, I extend my heartiest greetings and best wishes to the people living all over the country," Rosaiah said in a Raj...
02:58 PM, Jan 14, 2012
Chennai: Condemning what he called the "biased and step-motherly" treatment meted out to Tamil Nadu by the central government on various issues, DMDK founder-chief A Vijayakant on Thursday announced black flag demonstrations against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during his visit to Chennai. In a statement here, Vijayakant, the leader of opposition in the Tamil Nadu assembly, said, "In order to show the united opposition of the state, the DMDK will...
05:49 AM, Dec 23, 2011
Chennai: Six months after it won the Assembly election, Tamil Nadu's ruling AIADMK was on Friday all set to sweep the civic polls, capturing all 10 corporations in the state and a majority of other civic bodies. Counting of votes cast in the two-phased poll, held on October 17 and 19, began at 822 places across the state in the morning. AIADMK shot into the lead early into counting in...
05:03 PM, Oct 21, 2011
Chennai: The ruling AIADMK was leading in many places as per initial trends for the Tamil Nadu civic polls as counting of votes proceeded on Friday. Vote counting is on at 822 places across the state, with the two-phased polls having been held on October 17 and 19. AIADMK is leading in Coimbatore and Tiruppur municipal corporations while the opposition DMK is leading in places like Mettur, Vedaranyam and Arakkonam....
12:25 PM, Oct 21, 2011
Chennai: The Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) continued to make noises indicating an imminent end to its fateful alliance with the DMK at a meeting of the party's Chennai district general council on Sunday. Speakers at the event reflected the vitriolic employed by their leader S Ramadoss that the PMK's woeful showing in the recent Assembly elections was not a reflection against the party, but the DMK. "Any party that stood...
08:13 AM, Jul 18, 2011
Chennai: Seventy five of the 234 MLAs of the newly elected Tamil Nadu Assembly have declared in their affidavits that they have not filed their income tax returns, according to a Delhi-based NGO. AIADMK tops the list with 42 legislators, while DMDK has 13, CPM nine, CPI seven, DMK two and one each from Congress and Puthiya Thamizhagam. The report prepared by Delhi-based Association for Democratic Reforms, which was released...
09:46 PM, May 19, 2011
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Thursday said her AIADMK had been betrayed by poll ally and newly-elected Puducherry Chief Minister N Rangaswamy, who heads the All India NR Congress (AINRC). "Prior to the poll, Rangasamy said the Congress had betrayed him. And he has done the same thing to AIADMK," Jayalalithaa said in a statement, adding that her party would now act as a constructive opposition in...
04:49 PM, May 19, 2011
Chennai: The intense battle to form the next government in Tamil Nadu entered its final phase on Wednesday with voting for the 234-member Assembly starting on a brisk note. Even as the Tami Nadu electorate votes the war-of-words between the two main alliances vying for power has intensified. The J Jayalalithaa-led All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK)-Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK)-Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and Communist Party of...
11:44 AM, Apr 13, 2011
Dharmapuri: In a poll-related incident, a 32-year old local DMDK functionary died on Monday after he was attacked allegedly by a DMK worker in a village, 32 km from Dharmapuri, police said. One person has been remanded in judicial custody in connection with the incident. S Ashokan, DMDK Branch Secretary of Paruvathanahalli village, 32 km from Dharmapuri, succumbed to injuries at government hospital in Salem where he was rushed to...
11:23 AM, Apr 12, 2011
Chennai: AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa campaigned in Chennai on the final day of campaigning for the Tamil Nadu elections. Jayalalithaa is hoping to sweep Chennai, which was once the DMK bastion, and also where the impact of the 2G scam is expected to be maximum. Meanwhile Karunanidhi is hoping for a rural victory and has been campaigning in Thiruvarur to ensure he wins for the twelfth time. But in Chennai, MK...
08:48 AM, Apr 12, 2011
Tamil Nadu voters question their leaders as parties trying to buy votes with freebies. ...
10:06 PM, Apr 11, 2011
But, Tamil Nadu's April 13 verdict will only be known on May 13. ...
07:25 PM, Apr 11, 2011
Chennai: Stung by Deputy Chief Minister M K Stalin's reported remark about the marital status of AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa, her party on Friday filed a complaint against him with the Election Commission demanding immediate action. Stalin's remark was "malicious and was beyond all limits of decency", the complaint, filed a day after the EC issued a notice to Jayalalithaa for allegedly making personal remarks against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M...
02:04 PM, Apr 08, 2011
Chennai: Actor politician Vijayakanth, heading the DMDK, on Wednesday avoided sharing a platform with AIADMK leader Jayalalithaa at a joint poll campaign meeting in Coimbatore. Though the AIADMK leader had invited leaders of her alliance partners for the meeting, Vijayakanth chose to skip it and deputed DMDK presidium chairman Panrutty S Ramachandran, who negotiated the poll deal with AIADMK. According to political observers, the development showed that all was not...
01:12 PM, Apr 07, 2011
Namakkal: Dubbing both DMK and AIADMK as corrupt, Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy on Tuesday said both the parties were misleading voters by promising freebies in their manifestos for the April 13 Assembly polls. "People are fed up with both the Dravidian parties as they have been indulging in corruption alternately," Swamy, who was in Namakkal to campaign for BJP-Janata Party candidates, told reporters. He said both the parties were...
11:50 AM, Apr 06, 2011
