M Muruganandam addressing reporters in Trichy on Wednesday. Photo by R Bhaskar
TRICHY: General secretary of actor Kamal Haasan’s Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) M Muruganandam resigned from the party on Wednesday.
Addressing a press meet in Trichy, he said the present undemocratic atmosphere in the party had forced him to resign from the party post and its basic membership with immediate effect.
Many of the founding members of the party and the recent entrants have been tendering their resignations one after another due to their differences with Kamal.
Muruganandam said he had been given a free hand and independence when he had joined the party. It had helped him work to his fullest capacity to develop the party, he said.
Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) and Naam Tamilar Katchi (NTK) seem to have played a role in AIADMK candidates winning in six of the 10 Assembly constituencies, as the votes the two parties’ candidates had g
How the presence of smaller parties affected the prospects of many a candidate in TN
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Though the MNM, NTK and AMMK have not won a single seat, they have split the vote in many constituencies The Tamil Nadu Assembly 2021 elections have once again revealed the dominance of the two Dravidian majors DMK and AIADMK as no candidate outside the alliance of these two parties has managed to secure a win.
But the multi-cornered contest also revealed that smaller parties cannot be discounted as they can make or break the prospects of a candidate in a tightly contested election such as the current one.
With massive security measures in place and elaborate Covid-19 safety precautions, counting began at 8am across the state. Photo by S Lenin
CHENNAI: Initial trends in counting for the Tamil Nadu assembly election on Sunday pushed M K Stalin’s DMK in the lead with the ruling AIADMK led by Edappadi K Palaniswami and O Panneerselvam not far behind. In the Union territory of Puducherry, the AINR Congress-BJP alliance established a lead ahead of its Congress rival.
In the Kanyakumari Lok Sabha by-election, Congress candidate Vijay Vasanth, son of H Vasantha Kumar, whose death due to Covid-19 caused the vacancy, was ahead of BJP’s Pon Radhkrishnan.
With massive security measures in place and elaborate Covid-19 safety precautions, counting began at 8am across the state. Photo by S Lenin
CHENNAI: Initial trends in counting for the Tamil Nadu assembly election on Sunday pushed M K Stalin’s DMK in the lead with the ruling AIADMK led by Edappadi K Palaniswami and O Panneerselvam not far behind. In the Union territory of Puducherry, the AINR Congress-BJP alliance established a lead ahead of its Congress rival.
In the Kanyakumari Lok Sabha by-election, Congress candidate Vijay Vasanth, son of H Vasantha Kumar, whose death due to Covid-19 caused the vacancy, was ahead of BJP’s Pon Radhkrishnan.