Chennai: The Pattali Makkal Katchi’s 37th foundation day was observed quietly amid the growing standoff between the party’s founder S. Ramadoss and his son,...
Father-son feud continues in Tamil Nadu as Ramadoss says making his son a cabinet minister was a ‘mistake’, adds, 'it was not Anbumani who erred, it was me'.
Though PMK leaders claim all is well, party workers fear founder S Ramadoss and his son Anbumani—at odds over alliance strategy—may not reconcile in time for the assembly polls.
Polls about a year away, parties such as VCK, PMK, DMDK are organising large rallies & conferences to mobilise support bases, and send signals to their existing or prospective allies.
In a dramatic turn of events, PMK founder S Ramadoss on Thursday announced in Villupuram that he would take over the party’s leadership from his son with immediate effect.
The heated exchange between the father & son occurred over the appointment of P. Mukundan, the former’s grandson & latter’s nephew, as the party’s youth wing secretary.
AIADMK’s call to boycott Vikravandi bypoll was seen as bid to relay message to BJP-ally PMK with eye on 2026 assembly polls. But bypoll result has shown opposition to DMK is weak.
AIADMK has opted out of contest in stronghold in apparent olive branch to NDA ally PMK, say observers. But PMK asserts that coalition is intact & it’ll pick allies closer to state polls.
One has to be incredibly credulous to buy BJP spin masters’ argument that the government got rid of Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar for harmonious relationship with the judiciary.
Modi government had also made numerous efforts to establish peace with Pakistan but has now adopted a different path, militarily, to establish peace, adds defence minister.
As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.
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