Unlike the previous polls, the voters of Tamil Nadu are left only with two choices in the 2011 Assembly polls: vote for freebies and welfare schemes or vote against 2G scam and family rule besides price rise.

In all probability, AIADMK supremo J. Jayalalithaa may launch her election campaign from Madurai, the land of Goddess Meenakshi, on Friday.
Party sources say she would address her maiden election meeting at Pudur bus stand located near Alagarkoil (the ancient Vaishnavite temple) in suburban Madurai.

As DMK cadres cheered, the two Union ministers of Tamil Nadu’s first family, Mr M.K. Alagiri and Mr Dayanidhi Maran, exhibited their bonhomie at the inauguration of the `100-crore integrated textiles park at Thathampatti, in Madurai, Mr Alagiri’s constituency, on Saturday.

The Temple City, the venue of the high-voltage political meeting of Ms J. Jayalalithaa, is sitting on a powder keg. On Monday, AIADMK supremo J.

Madurai, May 15: Honour killing may be sporadic in Tamil Nadu but they do happen, and almost always it springs from caste prejudice.