Assembly Election 2021: Counting of votes in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry begins
While counting began at 8 am, by noon the trend will be known as to who would storm the Fort St. George. Image for representation , Zee News
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Updated: May 2, 2021, 08:06 AM IST
The electoral fate of 3,998 candidates who fought in the April 6 Tamil Nadu assembly polls will be known on Sunday, May 2. While it will be a celebration day for the 234-successful candidates and also for the winning political party/combination, one can also hear Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! cries from some others.
As per the Election Commission of India, 72.81 percent of the 6.29 crore voters have cast their votes in the poll. Apart from the Assembly election results, the bypoll results for the Kanniyakumari Lok Sabha constituency will also be known on Sunday.
Tamil Nadu assembly elections: Where the DMK managed to score over the AIADMK
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The Palaniswami-led AIADMK suffered as a result of a split in the party once fissures developed with Jayalalithaa s close aide, VK Sasikala s nephew TTV Dhinakaran. Dhinakaran who formed his own party, the AMMK enjoys the favour of a loyal voter base among the Thevar community which has been one of the traditional votebanks of the AIADMK.
ANI
DMK workers and supporters celebrate their party s performance in the Tamil Nadu assembly election.
While the DMK did not receive the kind of landslide victory that it was expecting, there were some clear factors that worked in the party s favour. Here are six reasons the DMK managed to win the TN polls:
Why the BJP chose to attack the DMK as ‘anti-Hindu’ instead of calling it ‘pseudo-secular’
Why the BJP chose to attack the DMK as ‘anti-Hindu’ instead of calling it ‘pseudo-secular’
However, the BJP seems oblivious of the fact that the Dravidian party has managed to alter the discourse of religion and secularism in the Tamil public sphere. BJP leader Amit Shah at a rally in Villupuram, Tamil Nadu, on February 28. | @amitshah via Twitter
During the recent Tamil Nadu election campaign, the Bharatiya Janata Party tried hard to project the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam as an anti-Hindu political party.
The Hindutva party did so by targeting two aspects of the DMK politics. Firstly, the DMK’s ideological legacy of Periyar E V Ramasamy, particularly his crusade against Brahmanical hegemony. Secondly, its efforts to protect the rights and interests of the religious minorities in Tamil Nadu.
Express News Service
CHENNAI: Going by history, campus politics has always provided platforms for students to rise to prominence and eventually emerge as politicians.
Even as student leaders in Kerala and West Bengal have gone/going to contest in the 2021 Assembly elections, Tamil Nadu has largely been lagging on this front. The reason?
A widespread notion that campus politics affects academic performance.
Various student activists accused educational institutions, political parties, governments, policies, and the common people for decimating the fledgling student politics in the State under the garb of avoiding violence on campuses.
The result? Tamil Nadu is losing out some of the best minds and ending up depoliticising them, a conducive space for totalitarian State to thrive, SFI TN State Secretary V Mariappan said.