Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha and BJP leader Sushma Swaraj will campaign for the party candidates in Coimbatore and Tirupur for two days from Thursday during the first phase of her electio

DMDK leader Vijayakanth on Wednesday “admitted to assaulting’ his party cadre during his campaign in Dharmapuri late Tuesday night.
Wooing voters in Vanniyar dominant Attur near Salem on Wednesday morning, Mr Vijayakanth said, “I did not hit the candidate. I hit only my assistant. People who get hit by me will become a Maharaja.”

BJP on Thursday said cricket and diplomacy between India and Pakistan should be kept separate and the game allowed to remain a game.

Chief minister and DMK president M. Karunanidhi has said he is open to sharing power should the poll verdict force it, though he believed that his party would win the majority to form the government.

The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday informed the Madras High Court that there had been complaints of money being distributed in a police jeep by some police personnel.

Tamil Nadu Congress president K. V. Thangkabalu suspected foul play in the rejection of his wife Jayanthi’s nomination for the Mylapore Assembly segment on Monday.

The Election Commission on Tuesday submitted before the Madras High Court that it has received information that money was being distributed in police jeep in poll-bound Tamil Nadu.

The EC had filed

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Both the major Dravidian parties are keen on capturing power through freebies and not eager to render justice to people on the development or welfare front, said senior BJP leader and former national president Bangaru Laxman. “The DMK and AIADMK are vying with each other and trying to outwit each other by announcing freebies. They have failed to address the basic problems of the people. Development has been neglected and they are only trying to survive on freebies,” he said.

Though the DMK government has implemented a slew of measures for the marginalised transgender community, they feel let down as two of their associates were not given the rare honour of contesting the