The DMK has been playing the ‘progressive’ card, not through any meaningful action, but through anti-BJP, anti-Modi and anti-Brahmin politics, and appeasement.
BJP has shown it can emerge as an alternative pole in Tamil Nadu politics and wean the state away from caste-oriented politics and silver screen leadership.
‘TMC will go its way, Congress will go its way,’ says West Bengal CM as she approaches Stalin, KCR to unite non-BJP forces over 'curbs on state autonomy’.
Social activists in Tamil Nadu are concerned that reservation for the oppressed castes in mayoral positions will not bring in any real change, and only play into political parties' vote banks.
In an exclusive interview with ThePrint, K. Annamalai said anyone working for Tamil Nadu was welcome. He said the DMK government had no vision and BJP would win 150 seats in 2026.
The first to float the idea of a ‘federal front’, the Telangana Chief Minister’s many meetings with leaders wasn’t followed up with ‘seriousness’ and constant effort, say analysts.
Previous AIADMK govt had begun celebrating Tamil Nadu Day on 1 November since 2019, but CM M.K. Stalin announced the move to 18 July Saturday, drawing flak from opposition parties.
In a letter to his counterparts in Delhi, Rajasthan, Odisha & Haryana, the Tamil Nadu CM said firecrackers' sale falling within the norms of Supreme Court & NGT must be permitted.
Ravi, a former IPS officer, is the state's 26th Governor and was appointed as the Centre's Interlocutor for the Naga peace talks in 2014, a responsibility he continues to discharge.
Can Modi be defeated? If yes, how? Is anyone trying to defeat him? These are key questions opposition leaders hoping to take on Modi in 2024 need to answer.
On 4 April 1968, Bansgaon MP Molhu Prasad delivered a speech in the Lok Sabha on the atrocities against the Scheduled Castes and their negligible representation despite reservation.
Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
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