How the presence of smaller parties affected the prospects of many a candidate in TN
May 03, 2021
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Though the MNM, NTK and AMMK have not won a single seat, they have split the vote in many constituencies The Tamil Nadu Assembly 2021 elections have once again revealed the dominance of the two Dravidian majors DMK and AIADMK as no candidate outside the alliance of these two parties has managed to secure a win.
But the multi-cornered contest also revealed that smaller parties cannot be discounted as they can make or break the prospects of a candidate in a tightly contested election such as the current one.
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Even as two Dravidian parties woo voters with a slew of freebies, smaller parties like MNM, AMMK, NTK can act as spoilers
The blistering campaign for the Tamil Nadu Assembly election and the lone by-election for the Kanyakumari Lok Sabha seat to be held simultaneously on April 6 came to an end on Sunday.
For the 234-seat Assembly, a total of 3,998 candidates 3,585 men, 411 women and two transgenders are in the fray.
In the last election, the AIADMK had no major alliance partner. However, this time, it has the BJP and the PMK as part of its alliance. The DMK alliance with the Congress continues this time too.
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TN poll campaign throws up crucial issues on women and work
Auction politics started in right earnest in Tamil Nadu soon after Assembly elections were announced. This time the issue of women’s household care work has come to the centre-stage.
In December 2020, actor-turned-politician Kamal Hasan, leader of the Makkal Needhi Maiyam, while unveiling his party’s seven-point ‘Governance and Economic Agenda’, announced his commitment to women’s empowerment by recognising their work at home “through payment for their work at home which hitherto has been unrecognised and unmonetised”.
Though one can sense the sincerity in his idea, there are serious problems with the notion of “salary” and household care work being seen as a “job”. Nonetheless, in the past few days, this issue has been picked up by both DMK and AIADMK the former announcing ₹1,000 for ration card holding homemakers and the latter assures ₹1,500 for homemakers pl