Decks are being cleared for the much-expected Cabinet reshuffle. The Cabinet reshuffle could see major changes this time as Sonia Gandhi is keen that the reshuffle involves some ministers returning to party work. Will performance be the criteria in choosing who is in and who goes out? Rate the incumbent ministers.
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06:46 PM, Jul 06, 2011
Madurai: Southern Tamil Nadu, comprising nine districts with 58 constituencies, may hold the key to the next government with candidates of DMK and AIADMK sweating it out to prove their strength in this crucial region which had given a surprise lead to the ruling combine in 2006 elections. With Union Minister and DMKs strongman M K Alagiri making the winning majority of the seats from this region as a prestige...
10:06 AM, Apr 12, 2011
Madurai: Rejecting suggestions that he was a Chief Ministerial candidate for the coming Tamil Nadu polls, Union Minister M K Alagiri on Thurdsday said his father M Karunanidhi would be the Chief Minister not only for the sixth time but also for a seventh time. The DMK-led combine would win in 200 seats; he claimed and rejected the view in political circles that there was a stiff competition from the...
11:56 AM, Apr 08, 2011
Madurai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Thursday said the Election Commission should remain neutral and unbiased in taking action against alleged violations of the model code of conduct like the judiciary, for the April 13 Assembly polls. Denying that he had said EC was biased, he told reporters that EC officials should remain neutral in taking actions against alleged violations of the model code. "The EC should function...
05:04 PM, Apr 07, 2011
Madurai: Union Minister M K Alagiri on Tuesday said "he had lost faith" in the Election Commission and would soon file a case in the High Court against Madurai District Collector U Sagayam and SP Asra Garg for "forcing" election officials to give complaints against him. Former Revenue Divisional Officer (RDO) Suhumaran was yesterday ordered to be suspended by the EC after he accused Sahayam, who is the District Election...
11:36 AM, Apr 06, 2011
Chennai: Election Commission on Monday ordered suspension of former Madurai East Assembly constituency Returning Officer S Suhumuaran, who had accused District Election Officer and Collector U Sahayam of harassing him to file cases against Union Minister M K Alagiri and his men. EC also directed the Tamil Nadu government to initiate disciplinary action against Suhumaran, who was only two days ago ordered to be moved out of politically-sensitive Madurai district...
12:23 PM, Apr 05, 2011
Madurai: Making a U-turn, an election official on whose complaint an assault case has been registered against Union Minister M K Alagiri, on Monday claimed he was not roughed up by ruling party activists who accompanied the DMK strongman during his controversial visit to a temple in the district on Friday. In a fax message to the Election Commission, M Kalimuthu, Tahsildhar and Assistant Returning Officer for Melur Assembly segment,...
03:34 PM, Apr 04, 2011
Madurai: BJP has demanded dismissal of Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilisers M K Alagiri from the Union cabinet in the wake of police booking cases against him and some DMK workers on charges of assaulting an election official and a videographer at a village in the district. Talking to reporters in Madurai on Saturday evening, BJP national Secretary P Muralidhar Rao said "democracy is facing a threat in Tamil...
12:59 PM, Apr 04, 2011
Madurai: District Collector U Sahayam on Wednesday refuted the allegation that he had spoken about change of government in Tamil Nadu at a function in Madurai recently and said such a charge has been made only to divert him from election-related work. Union Minister M K Alagiri had alleged that Sahayam stated that it was natural for the people to expect a change during the elections and that he would...
04:32 PM, Mar 30, 2011
New Delhi: DMK ministers M K Alagiri and Dayanidhi Maran on Monday night met Congress President Sonia Gandhi and are understood to have discussed the deadlock between the two parties on the issue of seat-sharing issue for Tamil Nadu Assembly polls. Sources have told CNN-IBN that DMK ministers' talks with Sonia failed to break deadlock. The meeting came hours after DMK decided to put on hold its decision to withdraw...
10:50 PM, Mar 07, 2011
The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister was replying to questions from reporters on his earlier hints of retirement. ...
03:42 PM, Jun 28, 2010
She has also offered to provide Tamil interpreters if language was a problem. ...
05:16 PM, Apr 26, 2010
