Tamil Nadu Assembly Election: EPS is hoping to lead the AIADMK to a third term (File)
Chennai:
Ten years of anti-incumbency, the absence of a larger-than-life leader and a fight for control of the party (from within and outside) has put the AIADMK and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami, or EPS, in a tight position, from which he has to buck the odds to emerge a winner.
So the ruling party and its ally, the BJP, have decided to do what always works well - disappointingly so - in Indian elections - play the caste card to influence voters.
Tamil Nadu, Puducherry Assembly elections end peacefully
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Puducherry: A voter registers her name to cast vote for the second phase of 2019 Lok Sabha elections, at a polling booth in Puducherry on April 18, 2019. (Photo: IANS/PIB) Image Source: IANS News
Puducherry: Voters wait in a queue to cast their votes for the second phase of 2019 Lok Sabha elections, at a polling booth in Puducherry on April 18, 2019. (Photo: IANS/PIB) Image Source: IANS News
Chennai/Puducherry, April 6 : Curtains came down on the single-phase Assembly polls in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry at 7 p.m. on Tuesday. Polling was peaceful across the state and the Union Territory.
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In Tamil Nadu, a total of 3,998 candidates were in the fray seeking support from the 6.28 crore electorate
Tuesday April 6, 2021 11:33 PM, IANS
Chennai/Puducherry: Curtains came down on the single-phase Assembly polls in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry at 7 p.m. on Tuesday. Polling was peaceful across the state and the Union Territory.
While computing the final turnout will take time, in Tamil Nadu, the voter turnover as of 5 p.m., was 63.65 per cent and in Puducherry, it was about 78 per cent, officials said.
Voting for the lone Kanniyakumari Lok Sabha seat where the bypoll was simultaneously held came to an end.
TN, Puducherry gear up for rule of one day sultans
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Vedasandur Assembly seat: TN s electoral barometer.(photo:Twitter). Image Source: IANS News
Chennai, April 5 : The dawn of Tuesday will see about 6.26 crore one day sultans in Tamil Nadu exercising their democratic rights to vote their ruler from Fort St. George here for the next five years.
Apart from the Assembly elections, there will also be the bypoll for the Kanniyakumari Lok Sabha seat in the state.
The high voltage electioneering for the 234 Assembly seats and the sole Lok Sabha seat came to an end in the state on Sunday evening.