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.
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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:
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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.
April 04, 2021
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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.
From the beginning, personal attacks and counterattacks were a regular feature among the two Dravidian majors.
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Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami Campaigning at Codissia Ground in Coimbatore city on Thursday. (Photo | EPS/U Rakesh Kumar)
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CHENNAI: Like any other general election, this time too, trivial issues such as personal attacks, emotional outbursts, and below-the-belt remarks are driving the campaign. But in this election, the dose of trivia has exceeded from the very beginning and as a result, actual issues have been pushed to a back-seat.
For the current Assembly elections, the campaign has started much ahead of the notification more than three months ago. From the beginning, personal attacks and counterattacks were a regular feature among the two Dravidian majors. As the day advanced, the arguments heated up, and ‘fake message war’ started in the social media by giving false info regarding each other’s e
Published: Friday, March 12, 2021, 10:28 [IST]
Chennai, Mar 11: Arch-rivals DMK and AIADMK on Thursday almost sealed their seat-sharing deals with allies for the coming assembly elections in Tamil Nadu on the eve of opening of nominations, with both set to contest in over 170 segments each out of the total 234 at stake.
While the AIADMK is eyeing a record third straight term, the DMK is keen to dethrone its traditional rival and stage a comeback to the ruling saddle after a gap of a decade.
Keen to ensure a majority on their own in the April 6 single phase elections, the AIADMK will fight from 178 constituencies directly and the DMK from 174.