Tamil Nadu Election 2021: DMK, Congress Lead In Dynastic Candidates
The long list includes DMK President MK Stalin s son, and two former TNCC presidents who have managed to get tickets for their sons G.C. Shekhar 2021-03-17T11:21:57+05:30 Tamil Nadu Election 2021: DMK, Congress Lead In Dynastic Candidates outlookindia.com 2021-03-17T22:57:09+05:30
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During his election campaign in the Salem district, Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami labelled the DMK as a party that promotes only the families of its leaders whereas in the AIADMK even an ordinary worker can become an MLA, Minister or even a Chief Minister.
To buttress his argument he pointed out how more than a dozen relatives of top DMK leaders have been given Assembly tickets whereas there was no such instance in the AIADMK. Udhayanidhi Stalin, given a ticket from Chennai’s Chepauk-Thiruvallikeni, leads the phalanx of similar family candidates of the DMK he noted.
Hours after a senior RSS ideologue on Tuesday claimed that there seems to be a secret deal between the CPI-M and the BJP leaderships in Kerala, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, feigning ignorance of the matter, attacked the BJP and the .
Tamil Nadu Assembly polls: Rift in Congress over seat allocation ANI | Updated: Mar 14, 2021 11:02 IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], March 14 (ANI): Days ahead of the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, a rift seems to have emerged inside Congress over seat allocation to candidates for the assembly polls.
A protest over the allocation of tickets for the polls, led by the Congress Lok Sabha MP Vishnu Prasad, was called off after an assurance by the party s state chief KS Alagiri on the issue.
Tamil NaduCongress president Alagiri stated: We are discussing with all the cadres and their views are being taken. We will inform the party s high command in Delhi about the developments. The final decision on the issue will be taken by them. It s our responsibility to take all our party members views and inform the high command.
Assam Polls: Badruddin Ajmal leads the All India United Democratic Front. (File)
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Congress is leading the Grand Alliance or Mahajoth in Assam
Assam will vote for a new government in three phases starting March 27
Guwahati, Assam:
The Congress, which is leading the Grand Alliance or
Mahajoth in Assam that has Maulana Badaruddin Ajmal-led AIUDF as a key ally, has claimed that a
Lakshman Rekha has be drawn to avoid communal posturing . The AIUDF (All India United Democratic Front) is only one of our allies. We are seven other progressive parties in the alliance - the Anchalik Gana Parishad, Left and the BPF. Many more are coming. Had we joined any communal force, they would not have come. Even if the AIUDF creates any communal posturing in the future, we will not be with them. That is why a
As the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are yet to announce their candidate lists for the upcoming Kerala Assembly polls, the media is raking up many names. One name which the media has raised in each and every state election is that of superstar Mammootty and this time, too, it is no different. This speculation had a shelf life till the Communist Party of India (Marxist) released its candidate list. Asked about his political leanings, Mammootty said he clearly has a political leaning but till now he has not been asked to contest the upcoming Assembly elections. There is lot of freedom for the media reporters when it comes to naming probable candidates of political parties and the ground rule is nothing but to run his/her imagination wild and come out with names which create a buzz. The moment one TV channel comes out, the others are also not far behind and finally when it comes to the actual candidate list, a huge majority of the hyped names that were doled out