TN elections 2021: Meet the political heavyweights
Profiles of some of the significant aiadmk leaders who were named in the party’s Assembly poll candidate list on Wednesday
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Profiles of some of the significant aiadmk leaders who were named in the party’s Assembly poll candidate list on Wednesday
OS Manian from Vedaranyam
Manian (67), Handlooms and Textiles Minister, is re-contesting in the Vedaranyam constituency. This is his third Assembly poll. Manian, a farmer and PUC graduate, was elected for the Assembly for the first time in 2016, with a huge margin of 22,998 votes. Manian was also a former Rajya Sabha MP from 1995-2001 and a former Lok Sabha MP from 2009 to 2014 . He is also the district secretary of AIADMK’s Nagapattinam unit and in charge of the erstwhile integrated Nagapattinam district. He was a staunch loyalist of former AIADMK Supremo J Jayalalithaa and was also the former propaganda secre
From the Archives (March 5, 1971): No vote without money
March 05, 2021 00:15 IST
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March 05, 2021 00:15 IST
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AAA An old woman of Thanipad in Thandarampattu Assembly constituency in North Arcot district to-day [March 4] refused to vote saying “no money, no vote.” It seems that she was not offered money for casting her vote in favour of any candidate.
At the Arattavadi polling centre in Chengam constituency many Lambadi women were seen eager to exercise their franchise. A large number of tribals also came to Chengam for casting their votes. At Singarampalayam in Kinathukadavu Assembly constituency (of Coimbatore district), Karuppan, a 110-year-old blind peasant, refused to take his great grandson’s help in casting his vote to-day. The great grandson carried the old man upto his polling booth. From there on, he flatly rejected the youth’s assistance. Instead, he asked the official on duty to explain the order of the symbols on the ballo