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Tuesday, May 18, 2021,
New Delhi
TamilnaduFirst.com brings you an exclusive interview of Shastri Ramachandaran, senior journalist and political and foreign affairs commentator based in Delhi, on the impact of the recent assembly elections on the political fortunes of the BJP and the Opposition. The ruling BJP is still reeling under the political blow it has been dealt in the elections, says Shastri.
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Tuesday, May 4, 2021,
Chennai
The DMK stormed back to power in Tamil Nadu after a gap of 10 years, with its president M K Stalin set to take over as chief minister on May 7 at a simple ceremony at the Raj Bhavan. The DMK-led front won 159 of the 234 seats up for grabsin the April 6 elections, counting for which was taken up on May 2 and 3, 2021. The AIADMK had to bow out of power, coming down from 134 in the previous House to just 66 now. Edappadi Palaniswami submitted his resignation as chief minister.
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Sunday, May 2, 2021,
Coimbatore
Noted actor and MNM leader Kamal Haasan lost narrowly to BJP leader Vanathi Srinivasan in Coimbatore South constituency. The margin of defeat was just 1,439 votes.
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Thursday, April 22, 2021,
Chennai
The AIADMK and its ally, the BJP, are not on the same page here. The AIADMK wants the convicts in the Rajiv killing case be given pardon but Governor Banwarilal Purohit toes the Centre line that no mercy should be shown as it is an issue concerning national security and terrorism
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Thursday, April 22, 2021,
Chennai
Jayalalithaa's close aide Sasikala became the extra-constitutional authority and Tamil Nadu her fiefdom. Jayalalithaa's Poes Garden residence became a beehive of corruption as she and Sasikala set up at the residence, and acquired properties worth thousands of crores
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Wednesday, November 18, 2020,
Chennai
BJP circles are working on a plan to get Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah to meet actor Rajinikanth during his Chennai visit on November 21, and convince him to launch a new party in time for the 2021 Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu.
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Sunday, July 19, 2020,
Chennai
Tamil Nadu fast turning into a land of religious bigotry. What BJP functionaries have not been able to do in the state, a YouTube channel has achieved overnight
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Friday, April 17, 2020,
Chennai
The BJP candidates list for Tamil Nadu has revealed that the party has relied more on caste and religious polarization to try and improve its electoral prospects in the State.
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Monday, December 23, 2019,
Ranchi
The BJP, which had assumed power in 71 per cent of the country’s States in 2017, has come down to just 35 per cent hold barely two years later.
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Monday, December 23, 2019,
Ranchi
The Jharkhand result has established that the BJP is losing its political sheen across the country, and that the opposition parties just have to be patient in continuing the pattern of broad alliances to trounce the saffron party. Equally, parties like the Congress and JD(S) in Karnataka, and the Samajwadi Party (SP) and Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) should also learn from the Jharkhand lesson, undo their hasty act of snapping alliances after just one defeat.
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Monday, December 23, 2019,
Ranchi
The ruling BJP was ousted from power in Jharkhand, as the JMM-Congress-RJD combine swept the Assembly elections, leading in 47 of the 81 seats that went to the polls in December 2019. Hemant Soren of the Jharkhand Mukthi Morcha is expected to form a coalition government with the Congress and the Rashtriya Janata Dal.
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Thursday, May 23, 2019,
Puducherry
The Congress-led government in Puducherry is relieved as its Lok Sabha candidate, Speaker V. Vaithilingam established an early lead for the lone seat in Puducherry. Vaithilingam was ahead of K. Narayanasamy of AINRC, who is being supported by several parties of the AIADMK-led front including the BJP.
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Thursday, May 23, 2019,
New Delhi
DMK-led UPA has established early leads in 16 of 38 Lok Sabha constituencies in Tamil Nadu as counting commenced for Lok Sabha and 22 Assembly by-elections in the State.
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Thursday, May 23, 2019,
New Delhi
Counting has begun for 541 Lok Sabha constituencies in the country, with early trends, based on postal ballots, giving a lead to the NDA over the opposition. The NDA was leading in 89 seats (loss of 6 seats) , the UPA in 23 (a gain of one), and others in 33 (a gain of 4). In Uttar Pradesh, a close contest seems to be in the offing,
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Sunday, March 17, 2019,
Chennai
The ruling AIADMK on March 17 released the list of constituencies to be contested by the party along with its allies for the 39 Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu and the lone seat for the Union Territory of Puducherry.
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Wednesday, December 12, 2018,
New Delhi
The results of the elections to three States – MP, Rajasthan and Vhhatisgarh – may have brought the Congress back to power and at the forefront of the struggle to dislodge the BJP from power at the Centre, but an analysis of the voting trends shows that the Congress needs to tie up with the BSP in various States to pip the BJP at the hustings.
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Wednesday, December 12, 2018,
Chennai
Much as actor Rajinikanth tries to cover up his BJP tag, the issue keeps cropping up every now and then, blocking the growth of his political party. His statement a few days ago indirectly praising PM Narendra Modi is the latest in the saga of the actor taking one step forward but two steps back while trying to build an independent party in Tamil Nadu.
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Tuesday, September 4, 2018,
Thoothukudi
Tamil Nadu, already earning a notorious tag for its efforts to put down dissent especially against the BJP, blotted its copybook further with the arrest of a 28-year-old research scholar from Canada, Lois Sofia, for shouting, “down with Modi, BJP-RSS fascist government,” towards the end of a Chennai-Thoothukudi flight when TN BJP president Tamilisai Soundarajan crossed her.
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Tuesday, September 4, 2018,
Chennai
Leader after leader of various opposition parties, speaking at the Kalaignar condolence meeting in Chennai on August 30, stressed that the newly-elected president M K Stalin will play a crucial role in the formation of the next government at the Centre. For Union Ministers Nitin Gadkari and Pon Radhakrishnan of the BJP, it must have been galling to find a galaxy of opposition parties coming together under one platform which could be a precursor to an alliance for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
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Saturday, July 21, 2018,
New Delhi
The ruling AIADMK in Tamil Nadu has had to swallow a bitter pill administered by BJP National President Amit Shah just a few days ago in Chennai, by agreeing to his request to support the NDA government in the Lok Sabha today. Amit Shah had hit out at massive corruption in Tamil Nadu, a direct indictment of the AIADMK government in the State, forcing AIADMK leaders to hit back strongly at the BJP.
