This is the transcript of Ep 1837 of Cut The Clutter, where Shekhar Gupta and DK Singh decode Tamil Nadu’s post-poll chaos, Vijay’s razor-thin majority bid, and the Governor’s role in the suspense.
TVK chief takes oath along with 9 other TVK leaders who will be ministers in Vijay's maiden cabinet. Event attended by Rahul Gandhi, other allies. Stay tuned to ThePrint for LIVE UPDATES.
It’s been a focused journey from Thalapathy to CM, as Vijay has essayed the role to perfection, slaying giants in the electoral arena and renewing hope across Tamil Nadu
In a state where one of the two dominant Dravidian parties, the DMK and the AIADMK, has been in power since 1967, the TVK’s focus on change found clear resonance.
Political analysts say youth and women seem to have voted for Vijay's TVK, which has cut into DMK votes. The DMK, facing massive anti-incumbency, failed to gauge Vijay's popularity.
Exit polls have in the past gone wrong with their predictions. Counting of votes for West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam and Puducherry is scheduled for 4 May.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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