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A formal alliance that became possible only after Jaya’s death — she had kept the BJP out in 2016 when she proved her point about not mixing ideologies — is now ended. (File Image: PTI)

AA Edit | As they part ways, BJP to lose more than AIADMK

The fact remains that national parties have for decades been reduced to a secondary status in Tamil Nadu

27 Sep 2023 12:00 AM

BJP state president, K. Annamalai. (Photo: Twitter)

AA Edit | Tear in BJP-ADMK ties that cannot be repaired

K. Annamalai went a bit overboard to rock the alliance boat in which he had been sailing.

15 Jun 2023 12:02 AM

Mr Palaniswami officially getting into the shoes of MGR, or even Jayalalithaa, will enable the party to turn a new leaf by regaining and consolidating its original support base. (Photo: PTI)

DC Edit | Is AIADMK turning a new leaf?

The succession strife in the prime Opposition party had a deleterious impact on the state’s politics

30 Mar 2023 12:29 AM

AA Edit | TN alliance ties broken, but ...

BJP and AIADMK which are poles apart in terms of ideological proclamations, were forced into an arranged nuptial

09 Mar 2023 12:15 AM

AA Edit | EPS: TN’s man of all seasons

EPS proved wrong the naysayers, who were sceptical of him emerging as a leader in his own right to keep the AIADMK flock together

25 Feb 2023 12:15 AM

AIADMK Coordinator O Panneerselvam, Joint Coordinator Edappadi K Palaniswami and other senior leaders during the party's General Council Meeting, in Chennai. (PTI Photo/R Senthil Kumar)

AA Edit | Lopsided power struggle in ADMK will end soon

Mr Palaniswami had meticulously cultivated a support base for him in the party unlike Mr Panneerselvam who remains more a regional leader

25 Jun 2022 7:44 AM

Verdicts in TN, Kerala, Assam show political diversity rules

The masterminds behind the one nation, one party slogan should know they cannot hope to win across the entire country

03 May 2021 12:00 AM

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Indian subnationalism past its expiry date?

Kerala, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, represent exemplar benchmarks for regionalism with deep political, social, linguistic and cultural roots

11 Apr 2021 12:00 AM

CPM leader and Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, whose photograph is on right, addresses an election campaign wearing a mask in Kochi, on March 27, 2021. The southern state goes to polls on April 6 to elect members to its state legislature. (AP/R S Iyer)

AA Edit | South India is different: Hopes rest on Left, DMK

The Dravidian major DMK has similarly reduced the seats for the Congress in its alliance of Tamil forces aiming to recapture Fort St George

03 Apr 2021 8:19 AM

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) party president M. K. Stalin (top R) gestures to supporters during a rally after filing his nomination ahead of the Tamil Nadu state legislative assembly elections, in Chennai on March 15, 2021. (Arun SANKAR / AFP)

AA Edit | Competitive, compulsive: TN’s ‘poll freebie’ culture

The 2021 freebie promise has been the most extensive on record with AIADMK offering a washing machine for each of about two crore families

17 Mar 2021 8:47 AM

Since her landing in Chennai, she had not made any significant breakthrough politically, other than having a few guests like actor Seeman, actor Sarathkumar and his wife Radhika and film director Bharathiraja. (DC File Photo)

AA Edit | Damp squib Sasikala

When it is known that she cannot stand for election for another six years, what was the need to announce that she was leaving the turf?

05 Mar 2021 8:50 AM

The regional majors — the Trinamul Congress, the AIADMK and the DMK — will have their bases intact whether they win or lose but power is a major factor that keeps them going. (Photo: AFP)

AA Edit | Stakes high in state polls

The stakes are high for the Congress, whether the party realises it or not

01 Mar 2021 4:04 AM

When the general council of Haasan’s party, named differently as the Makkal Needhi Maiam (People’s Justice Centre), made him the “permanent president” by passing a resolution, his detractors, who never miss an opportunity to pick holes in whatever he does or says, raised serious questions, quite out of sync with the prevailing mirth. (Photo:PTI)

AA Edit | Kamal’s black humour

There is never a dull moment in Tamil Nadu’s political scene, particularly when the state gears up for an Assembly election

13 Feb 2021 12:00 AM

Sasikala’s impact on Tamil Nadu politics is not to be dismissed though she is ineligible to stand for election. (PTI file photo)

AA Edit | Sasikala the ‘X’ factor in TN’s soap opera politics

Sasikala, who has never been in electoral politics, can be expected to play the role of a disruptor as she seeks the Jayalalithaa legacy

10 Feb 2021 7:44 AM

Sources say trouble is anticipated if Sasikala travels with the party flag on the car when she enters Hosur in Tamil Nadu from Attibelle in Karnataka. (Photo: DC)

AIADMK panics as Sasikala returns

Ex-leader to come in motorcade of 500-1,000 cars from Bengaluru

08 Feb 2021 4:26 AM

V.K. Sasikala, file picture (Image source: DC Image/N Sampath)

DC Edit l Inconsequential homecoming?

The common man wants to know if Sasikala can turn the politics of Tamil Nadu upside down

29 Jan 2021 4:15 AM

An accidental CM turns aspirational

The “farmer” image, Mr Palanisamy hopes, would help in the 2021 Assembly elections.

27 Feb 2020 1:36 AM

AIADMK wants to break ties with BJP, hints mantri

A few other ministers have been expressing their views against the alliance in subtle ways.

23 Jan 2020 2:23 AM

Pandian was the first senior AIADMK functionary to publicly take a stand against former Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa's aide V K Sasikala after the death of the late party supremo in December 2016. (Photo: ANI)

Former Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker PH Pandian passes away

A noted advocate, he had appeared in several sensational criminal cases and matters involving constitutional importance.

04 Jan 2020 4:10 PM

In a tweet, the DMK chief mocked at the ruling AIADMK saying it was 'servile' to the Centre and acted against even those drew rangoli since it did not want the Union government to be 'offended' even by 'flour' used for drawing kolam. (Photo: File)

'No to CAA, NRC' rangoli at DMK chief Stalin's residence

Alongside the rangoli known as 'kolam' in Tamil, a word was drawn which said 'vendam (don't need/no) CAA-NRC.'

30 Dec 2019 3:31 PM

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