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Tamil Nadu Assembly Election 2021 News Live: Over 3,000 spl buses to be operated during election week
Madras HC slams politicos, says ‘freebie culture’ has made Tamil Nadu people lazy. As several senior BJP leaders, including PM Narendra Modi, defence minister Rajnath Singh and BJP president J P Nadda, descended on poll-bound Tamil Nadu and Puducherry to rev up the party’s campaign for the April 6 assembly poll, DMK MP A Raja’s alleged ‘derogatory’ remarks against the CM seem to have given the party enough ammo to target the DMK over its “culture of insulting women”. Criticizing AIADMK leaders for terming the 10.5% internal quota for vanniyars a temporary arrangement, DMK leader MK Stalin promises to enact a new law satisfying all communities. DMK will grab your properties if elected, EPS warns people. Stay tuned to TOI for all the latest updates on Tamil Nadu and Puducherry elections:
DMK's MK Stalin stops his election rally to make way for an ambulance near Thudiyalur junction in Coimbatore. Stalin is in the city to campaign for his party candidates from Coimbatore South, Coimbatore North, Singanallur and Kavundampalayam.
Workers ready Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) at NKT School in Chennai on Thursday. Voting for Tamil Nadu state assembly will take place on April 6.
Tamil Nadu deputy chief minister O Panneerselvam campaigns in Madurai.
TN to operate over 3,000 special buses for whole of poll week
The Tamil Nadu transport department seems to have learned its lesson the hard way. During the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, state-run transport corporations did not operate enough additional buses ahead of the voting day. As a result, thousands of passengers climbed on top of buses and hung on to the rear grilles to reach their native places to vote. This attracted sharp criticism and put the ruling AIADMK in an awkward situation eight to 12 hours before the votes were cast.
Naam Tamilar Katchi leader Seeman campaigns for Annanagar candidate S Shankar in Chennai.
DMK president MK Stalin addresses a public rally in Mettupalayam.
Union home minister Amit Shah holds roadshow in Lawspet, Puducherry. Puducherry will go to polls on April 6.
Tamil Nadu: Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath visits Vivekananda Memorial in Rameswaram.
Madras HC slams politicos, says ‘freebie culture’ has made Tamil Nadu people lazy
Slamming political parties for encouraging ‘freebie culture’ in the state, the Madras high court on Wednesday said it has caused the people of Tamil Nadu to become lazy. Locals refuse to work resulting in migrant workers taking over jobs, the court said.
Stalin vows new quota law to satisfy all communities
Criticizing AIADMK leaders for terming the 10.5% internal quota for vanniyars a temporary arrangement, DMK leader M K Stalin on Wednesday promised to enact a new law satisfying all communities. He said deputy chief minister O Panneerselvam and revenue minister R B Udhayakumar have called the law passed in the assembly a temporary one while PMK leader S Ramadoss says he got it clarified from the CM that it was permanent.
‘Sun’ went down with MK’s death: Rajnath
Terming the DMK and Congress alliance as ‘strange bad fellows’, defence minister Rajnath Singh said, “DMK’s sun went down with the death of its leader M Karunanidhi. Stalin now stands at the phase of the sun setting.” Campaigning for Ooty BJP candidate M Bhojarajan in the town on Wednesday, Rajnath promised the people of the Badaga community in the Nilgiris that their demand for reinstatement of their lost ST tag would be considered positively soon.
Nothing obscene, it was a ‘simile’, A Raja tells EC
DMK MP A Raja in his ‘interim reply’ to the EC over its notice on his remark on the CM’s birth, said he had used a ‘simile’ to trace the political evolution of his party chief M K Stalin and Palaniswami and using such comparison was accepted in Tamil oratory. Raja said he had not spoken anything ‘obscene’ to lower the dignity of women.
BJP’s star crew descends on TN, Pondy
As several senior BJP leaders, including PM Narendra Modi, defence minister Rajnath Singh and BJP president J P Nadda, descended on poll-bound Tamil Nadu and Puducherry to rev up the party’s campaign for the April 6 assembly poll, DMK MP A Raja’s alleged ‘derogatory’ remarks against the CM seem to have given the party enough ammo to target the DMK over its “culture of insulting women”. Terming the DMK and Congress alliance as ‘strange bad fellows’, defence minister Rajnath Singh said, DMK’s sun went down with the death of its leader M Karunanidhi.