New Delhi: Blaming DMK for the drubbing in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry Assembly elections, Congress has said there is a need to take a "relook" at its strategy in the southern state as the party must not lose its vote bank due to "mistakes of its coalition partners".
The remarks made in the editorial and an article of the latest issue of party mouthpiece 'Congress Sandesh' have come at a time when DMK chief M Karunanidhi is holding an emergency meeting of the party's high-level Action Committee.
"The results in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry were affected by the 2G scam and these states were lost to other parties," the editorial said.
Another article in the journal says, "The Congress has to have another look at their strategy in the southern state. It must not lose its vote bank due to the mistakes of its coalition partners." Congress was part of the DMK-led alliance in Tamil Nadu....
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03:07 PM, Jun 10, 2011
Chennai: DMK president and former chief minister M Karunanidhi on Monday took oath as a member of the 14th Assembly of Tamil Nadu, where he would be representing Thiruvarur constituency. The 88-year-old veteran leader took oath before Speaker D Jayakumar. His party colleague and former Law Minister Durai Murugan also took oath. The two leaders had not taken oath on May 23, when the first session of the House convened...
02:06 PM, May 30, 2011
Chennai: The newly elected AIADMK government on Friday continued its shake-up of the police force, transferring senior officials including IG (Intelligence) Shankar Jiwal. Jiwal has been transferred and posted as IG, Special Task Force, an official release in Chennai said. He will be based at Satyamangalam in Erode district. A Alexander Mohan, IPS, the incumbent officer in the post is transferred out, the release said. G Dorairaj, IPS, Inspector General...
11:51 PM, May 27, 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: On her first day in office, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Monday implemented her major poll promises of free rice to ration card holders and BPL families, gold for 'mangalsutra' for girls for marriage and effected a top-level bureaucratic overhaul. She ordered distribution of 20 kg free rice per month to ration card holders and 35 kg of rice to BPL families. Old-age pension has been doubled from...
12:01 PM, May 17, 2011
Chennai: AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa took over as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for the third time on Monday. Jayalalithaa and her Cabinet colleagues were administered the oath of office and secrecy by Governor Surjit Singh Barnala in Chennai. In the midst of the customary grandeur and the colourful and cheering crowd of cadres only eight ministers who were in her cabinet in the past have returned. Key figures...
12:47 PM, May 16, 2011
Tiruparankunram: In a marked departure from the usual practice of putting up posters for politicians and actors, some youngsters have put up a giant flex board near Tiruparankunram praising Tamil Nadu Chief Electoral Officer Praveen Kumar for holding the assembly polls in a fair manner. The youths of Avaniapuram, who claimed to be members of the 'Praveen Kumar's fans association', said they also performed "milk abhishekam' to the Board, which...
11:56 AM, May 16, 2011
Chennai: The 34-member AIADMK ministry to be sworn in on Monday with J Jayalalithaa as its Chief Minister will be the largest Cabinet in the history of Tamil Nadu since independence. The AIADMK supremo has surprised all, including her party functionaries by introducing 24 new faces while leaving out some of the old warhorses like D Jayakumar, Pollachi V Jayaraman and B Valarmathi. As per the Constitution (91st Amendment) Act...
11:04 AM, May 16, 2011
Chennai: Jayalalithaa, who ensured a landslide victory for AIADMK in the Tamil Nadu Assembly polls, will be sworn in as Chief Minister on Monday for a third term along with 33 others in her Cabinet in which she will retain police and home portfolios. The swearing-in ceremony of the 63-year-old leader will take place at the historic Madras University's centenary auditorium at 12:15 pm where Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi,...
07:04 AM, May 16, 2011
Chennai: AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa, who will be sworn in as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister on Monday, will have 33 ministers in her cabinet and she will hold key portfolios of Police and Home, among others. As many as 25 of the 34-member cabinet, which will be sworn in on Monday, are fresh faces which include youngsters like Senthil Balaji, who has been allotted the Transport Ministry, a release from the...
08:58 PM, May 15, 2011
New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi's Youth Congress has not fared well in the Assmebly elections, especially in Tamil Nadu and Kerala. This has raised the question on whether his brand and strategy is working at all. In Tamil Nadu, all of the nine Youth Congress nominees lost and in Kerala, out of the 18 nominees, only six have won. Over the last one year, Rahul has concentrated on the South, which,...
05:36 PM, May 15, 2011
Chennai: Former chief minister Jayalalithaa was on Sunday elected leader of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) Legislature Party. She was elected by 146 newly elected MLAs of the party at a meeting held at the AIADMK headquarters in Chennai on Sunday morning, party sources said. Jayalalithaa, who led her party to a landslide victory in the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections on Friday, is slated to meet Governor...
10:54 AM, May 15, 2011
New Delhi: UPA chief Sonia Gandhi on Sunday reached out to AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa and congratulated her on the Tamil Nadu election victory. Sonia Gandhi has also extended an invited to the soon-to-be new chief minister for tea in New Delhi. But sources said that it was only a customary courtesy call and that the Congress-DMK alliance is intact. The congratulatory phone call from Sonia Gandhi to Jayalalithaa has now...
10:03 AM, May 15, 2011
New Delhi: AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa met the Tamil Nadu Governor SS Barnala on Sunday to stake the claim to form a new government. She will be sworn in at 12.15 pm on Monday. It will be a 30-member cabinet with many party veterans. On Friday, Jayalalithaa had a thumping victory against the ruling DMK, grabbing 203 of the 234 assembly seats. Right after her win, Jayalalithaa also shifted the...
07:13 AM, May 15, 2011
Chennai: Armed with the landslide mandate in the Assembly polls, AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa will on Sunday call on Governor SS Barnala and formally stake her claim to form the government in Tamil Nadu. "I am meeting the Governor tomorrow (to stake claim for forming the government)," she told reporters here a day after AIADMK scripted a spectacular comeback securing an absolute majority on its own with a tally of 150...
05:22 PM, May 14, 2011
AIADMK led by Jayalalithaa on Friday knocked out ruling DMK from power with a landslide victory ensuring an absolute majority on its own in Tamil Nadu Assembly elections.
03:09 PM, May 14, 2011
Chennai: A day after the Congress in Tamil Nadu was decimated in the Assembly polls, TNCC President K V Thangkabalu announced his resignation from the post, accepting moral responsibility for the defeat. Addressing reporters in Chennai, Thangkabalu said he will send his resignation letter to Congress President Sonia Gandhi soon and will abide by the party high command's decision on the matter. He, however, added that no party should be...
12:50 PM, May 14, 2011
Rajdeep Sardesai discusses the Assembly poll results with experts and talks to Mamata Banerjee on 'Battle for the States'. ...
11:57 PM, May 13, 2011
