Chennai: MDMK leader Vaiko demanded on Monday that India boycott the London Olympics if the organisers did not cancel the sponsorship contract with Dow Chemicals, which has links to Union Carbide - the company responsible for the Bhopal gas disaster in 1984. "To save the honour of the Indian democracy and to respect the sad sentiments of the affected people of Bhopal (gas tragedy), the government should send a strongly-worded...
06:16 PM, Jan 30, 2012
Idukki: KPCC president Ramesh Chennithala will stage a fast in front of the Martyrs Column in Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday, as part of a state-wide UDF campaign for a permanent solution to the Mullaperiyar dam issue. The ruling LDF will be organising a human wall from Mullaperiyar in Idukki district to Kochi. The human wall will take shape at around 4 pm and will pass through Idukki, Kottayam and Ernakulam districts...
07:20 AM, Dec 08, 2011
Chennai: Protesting against Kerala's stand to construct a new dam in place of Mullaperiyar, MDMK leader Vaiko will stage a day-long fast at Theni district on Thursday. Vaiko will stage the fast protesting Kerala's "injustice" in trying to build a dam in place of the existing structure, 'which is the livelihood of South Tamil Nadu," a press release from the MDMK headquarters said. He will also undertake a campaign from...
01:34 PM, Dec 07, 2011
New Delhi: After meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the Mullaperiyar Dam issue on Monday, MDMK leader Vaiko said that the the Kerala government was pressing the panic button and putting fear-psychosis in the minds of people of Kerala. "Central government should immediately deploy CRPF for the protection of the dam. The dam is destroyed in some other circumstances. The unity in India will be no more," he said. "Tamil...
12:07 PM, Dec 05, 2011
Thiruvananthapuram: Theatre owners in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday said they will not screen 'Dam 999'. They claim they do not want to scare people. The movie, based on row between Tamil Nadu and Kerala over 116-year-old Mullaperiyar dam, is about what happens when the dam collapses. The movie is slated to release on November 25. DMK President M Karunanidhi on Wednesday came out against the release of 'Dam 999', a...
05:11 PM, Nov 23, 2011
Chennai: Two political parties in Tamil Nadu MDMK and PMK today demanded a ban on the release of Hollywood film 'Dam 999' in the country, saying it depicts the scenario of the collapse of century-old Mullaiperiyar Dam over which the state is locked in a row with Kerala. MDMK leader Vaiko, in a statement, said the film, financed by Keralites, starring Indian and Hollywood actors and directed by Sohan Roy...
05:12 PM, Nov 22, 2011
Tiruchy: After the PMK, the Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) too is considering severing ties with the DMK front, as the functionaries feel that its credibility on the Sri Lankan Tamils issue had eroded due to ties with DMK and Congress. VCK leader Thol Thirumavalavan's support to the LTTE, while continuing to share ties with the Congress was perceived to be contradictory. Despite Thiruma's vocal support to the LTTE, the Dalit...
08:10 AM, Aug 01, 2011
Chennai: MDMK chief Vaiko on Friday asked party cadre to desist from making any public statements on the Tamil Nadu election, amid reports that they were canvassing for the ruling DMK in many places across the state. MDMK is boycotting the April 13 polls after it failed to clinch a seat-sharing deal with AIADMK, a development which had prompted DMK chief Karunanidhi to make overtures to Vaiko, who has however...
02:21 PM, 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
Coimbatore: Senior DMK leader and former Union Minister M Kannappan on Thursday said MDMK workers might have by now realised DMK is the only party fighting for the rights of the common man and also the real custodian of the Dravidian movement. Asked for his reaction on the decision of one-time leader and comrade, MDMK General Secretary Vaiko, to boycott the April 13 assembly polls, Kannappan said MDMK workers would...
10:43 AM, Mar 24, 2011
Chennai: Dalit-based Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK), a constituent of the DMK-led alliance, on Wednesday said the combine was only a "poll-time arrangement" and the party would not "dilute" its stand on the demand for separate statehood for Sri Lankan Tamils. "This is a poll-time arrangement. There is no change in our stand on Tamil Eelam," VCK founder Thol Thirumavalavan told reporters after releasing his party's manifesto for the April 13...
04:47 PM, Mar 23, 2011
Puducherry: The lone MDMK member in the Puducherry Assembly PR Siva has resigned from the party and membership of the House and joined the All India NR Congress led by former Chief Minister N Rangasamy. Official sources said Siva submitted his resignation to the Secretary to the assembly earlier in the day. Siva was elected to the assembly from Tirunallur in the 2006 polls. "During the past five years, I...
02:54 PM, Mar 22, 2011
Puducherry: The lone MDMK member in the Puducherry Assembly P R Siva has resigned from the party and membership of the House and joined the All India NR Congress led by former Chief Minister N Rangasamy. Official sources said Siva submitted his resignation to the Secretary to the assembly earlier in the day. Siva was elected to the assembly from Tirunallur in the 2006 polls. "During the past five years,...
05:02 PM, Mar 21, 2011
Madurai: Reacting to MDMK's decision of not contesting Tamil Nadu Assembly polls, Union Minister and DMK leader M K Alagiri on Sunday said the party's leader Vaiko had "in the last minute" understood the "egoistic nature" of AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa. "It is not MDMK which has boycotted the elections, but AIADMK which has boycotted MDMK," Alagiri, who is Chief Minister M Karunanidhi's elder son and DMK's Organising Secretary (South Zone)...
11:26 AM, Mar 21, 2011
Chennai: Vaiko's MDMK party on Sunday said it was quitting the AIADMK-led alliance and boycotting the coming elections in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry after being denied the seats it wanted to contest. Slighted by the AIADMK's refusal to allocate 21 of the 234 seats in Tamil Nadu, Vaiko's party said it was leaving the company of former Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa over her "arrogant attitude". The decision ends the AIADMK's...
05:21 PM, Mar 20, 2011
Chennai: Even a day after the filing of nominations opened for April 13 assembly polls began in Tamil Nadu, the political scene remains unclear, with the AIADMK still struggling to put the alliance led by it in shape. On the one hand, the identification of seats to be contested by DMDK, second largest constituent in the rainbow alliance, was yet to be completed and on the other, MDMK has pulled...
12:06 PM, Mar 20, 2011
Chennai: Upset over AIADMK's "adamant attitude and ill-treatment", MDMK on Sunday quit the electoral battle for the Tamil Nadu Assembly polls even as the AIADMK's new found ally DMDK is negotiating hard with its senior partner on identification of 41 seats allotted to it. Last minute efforts by AIADMK late Saturday night to retain its five-year-old ally MDMK in the rainbow alliance did not succeed, with MDMK chief Vaiko declaring...
10:58 AM, Mar 20, 2011
Chennai: Jolted by AIADMK's 'unilateral' announcement of candidates for 160 seats even before identification of constituencies to its allies for the April 13 Tamil Nadu polls, DMDK and Left party leaders went into a huddle on Thursday to decide about their future electoral strategy. The DMDK leader, Vijayakant who is understood to have expressed his displeasure over AIADMK's announcement, had been consulting his party cadre which had gathered in the...
01:49 PM, Mar 17, 2011
Chennai: Virtually shutting the door on its long time ally, the MDMK, the AIADMK on Wednesday announced that it will contest 160 seats for the April 13 Assembly polls, with chief Jayalalithaa seeking election from the temple town of Srirangam. Party heavyweights including former chief minister O Panneerselvam (Bodinayakkanur), Presidium Chairman E Madhusudhanan (R K Nagar) and headquarters secretary KA Senkottaiyan (Gobichettpalayam) found place in the first list released by...
09:51 PM, Mar 16, 2011
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