25 years on, Chennai sees a DMK sweep
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May 04, 2021 01:40 IST
Decimation of AIADMK in the region may be due to many reasons, including lack of ground work by office-bearers, selection of candidates
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Patriarch remembered: Caterers celebrating DMK’s victory by remembering the late M. Karunanidhi.
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Decimation of AIADMK in the region may be due to many reasons, including lack of ground work by office-bearers, selection of candidates In the city, electoral history has repeated itself after 25 years. After the 1996 Assembly election, Chennai has voted fully for the DMK and its allies, routing the AIADMK as it did then and giving the party a comfortable majority to form a government on its own.
Tamil Nadu Assembly polls | Stalin’s patient and long wait ends
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May 02, 2021 21:41 IST
DMK scion achieves the chief ministership after a step-by-step elevation in which he proved himself over four decades.
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DMK scion achieves the chief ministership after a step-by-step elevation in which he proved himself over four decades.
It has been a long haul for Muthuvel Karunanidhi Stalin. Indira Gandhi’s Emergency had catapulted him into active politics. It was a baptism by fire, when, in his early twenties, the newly married Stalin, was dragged away and jailed. His father, late Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) patriarch M. Karunanidhi, once remarked that Mr. Stalin was arrested only because he was his father’s son.
For the 68-year-old M.K. Stalin, affectionately called "Thalapathi" (Commander) by members of his DMK, the wait to lead Tamil Nadu as its head will soon get over.The DMK, led by Stalin, a former Deputy Chief Minister, is all set to .
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