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Key seats, rural-urban trends & other highlights: All you need to know about Tamil Nadu polls
Key seats, rural-urban trends & other highlights: All you need to know about Tamil Nadu polls
The Tamil Nadu Assembly polls will witness a direct fight between the ruling BJP and the AIADMK alliance, and the opposition coalition of the DMK and Congress.
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UPDATED: April 5, 2021 00:27 IST
Tamil Nadu is set to go to polls on April 6 in a single phase (Photo | India Today)
This will be the first election in decades when two charismatic leaders of Tamil Nadu politics J Jayalalithaa andM Karunanidhi will be missing in action. And this will also be the first election after the state bucked the long tradition of voting out the incumbent in 2016. AIADMK founder MG Ramachandran got a second term in 1984 and his political heir Jayalalithaa had the distinction of doing an encore after 32 years.
Updated Mar 14, 2021 | 17:31 IST
Saravanan said he is a medical doctor, and considering his soft-nature he could not put up with such an ambience in the DMK and that was why he joined the BJP. DMK legislator P Saravanan | Photo Credit: ANI
Chennai: Weeks before assembly elections in Tamil Nadu, DMK legislator P Saravanan joined the BJP here on Sunday, protesting what he called the dominance and silent torture by the district-level officer-bearers of the Dravidian party.
Saravanan, representing the Tirupparankundram constituency in the Madurai region, is the second DMK MLA after Ku Ka Selvam (Thousand Lights constituency here) to join the BJP ahead of the April 6 assembly polls.
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Upset that the DMK leadership had allotted the constituency to ally CPM, Saravanan joined the BJP in the presence of its state president L Murugan in the morning
Chennai: In the world of âAya Ram and Gaya Ramâ politics, this one would take the case. Till Sunday morning, Saravanan, a doctor by qualification, was a DMK legislator representing the Tirupparankundram Assembly constituency in the temple town of Madurai in south Tamil Nadu.
Upset that the DMK leadership had allotted the constituency to ally CPM, Saravanan joined the BJP in the presence of its state president L Murugan in the morning. Within a few hours when the BJP leadership announced that list of candidates in 17 of the 20 constituencies, allotted to it by the AIADMK, Saravananâs name figured in it as the candidate from the Madurai North constituency.
Weeks before assembly elections in Tamil Nadu, DMK legislator P Saravanan joined the BJP here on Sunday, protesting what he called the dominance and silent torture by the district-level officer-bearers of the Dravidian party.