Tamil Nadu Assembly Election: EPS is hoping to lead the AIADMK to a third term (File)
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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 elections: Make-or-break battle for EPS and Stalin
On the governance front, the State needs a stable government now more than ever, with the pandemic dealing a severe blow to the economy and public life.
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DMK president MK Stalin addressing the people during a campaign at Bodinayakanur in Theni district on Wednesday | EXPRESS By Express News Service
CHENNAI: April 6, 2021 might be the beginning of a new chapter in Tamil Nadu’s political history. Tuesday’s polls might not just decide the course of the next five years, but the decades ahead. The electorate of the State has been deprived of its trusted choices of M Karunanidhi and J Jayalalithaa, and the popular choice is now between DMK’s MK Stalin and AIADMK’s Edappadi K Palaniswami.
Tamil Nadu polls: Actor Vijay cycles to polling booth, sparks social media storm
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Tamil Nadu polls 2021: Actor Vijay casts his vote at a booth in Neelankarai
Tamil superstar Vijay cycled to a polling booth in Chennai to cast his vote, causing a brief flutter in the neighbourhood streets and a storm of speculation online that it was some form of protest.
The flying squad teams and special surveillance teams and other enforcement agencies had seized cash and other materials worth Rs 433.92 crore until Monday
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu votes on Tuesday amid complaints of voter bribery from both AIADMK and DMK and seizures of more than Rs 230 crore in cash, besides a protest demonstration in one village demanding cash.
Chief electoral officer Satyabrata Sahoo said his office has not received any communication from the Election Commission of India (ECI) on rescinding polls, following complaints of distribution of cash to voters by parties, in any assembly segment.
Earlier in the day, the ruling AIADMK complained to the chief electoral officer seeking countermanding of polls in five assembly segments, where DMK leaders are contesting. These were Kolathur (DMK president M K Stalin), Chepauk – Triplicane (Udhayanidhi Stalin), Katpadi (general secretary S Durai Murugan), Trichy West (principal secretary K N Nehru) and Tiruvannamalai (former
Tamil Nadu Polls: Red or Green, who will sweep Delta clean?
However, another minister with the same name, MR Vijayabaskar has been holding high-decibel campaigns in Karur against DMK’s Senthil Balaji.
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TIRUCHY: If the Chief Minister’s carefully constructed ‘farmer’ image finds takers among voters, it would make the Delta region easily winnable for the ruling AIADMK. But, if the Opposition’s campaign against the three contentious farm laws and the continuing farmers’ protest at Delhi borders raises concerns among farmers, it would then become a closely-watched battle. While the AIADMK candidates emphasised on the pro-agriculture measures taken by Palaniswami such as Kudimaramathu works, declaration of the Delta region as a Protected Zone, waiver of crop loans, the DMK speakers countered it by listing the ill-effects of farm laws, the support AIADMK MPs extended to it in the Parliament, improper execution of loan w