Tamilnadu today registered 3,645 new cases, and the total number of inflections has touched 9,07,124.
Day: April 6, 2021
About 38.39 per cent of the total 6.29 crore electorate have cast their ballots till 1.30 pm, as the single phase polling in one of the most fiercely contested Assembly elections in Tamilnadu apart from the by-poll to the Kanyakumari Lok Sabha seat, progressed peacefully.
Top political leaders of Tamilnadu, including Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami, Deputy CM O Panneerselvam, Opposition DMK president M K Stalin, leaders of the alliance partners of the ruling AIADMK and DMK today exercised their democratic right as the single phase polling to elect the 234-member 16th Assembly began today.
Superstar Rajinikanth, actor and Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) founder Kamal and other stars voted in the Tamilnadu Assembly elections today.
As Tamilnadu started exercising the democratic duty to elect its 16th Assembly, V K Sasikala, a close-aide of late Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, could not cast her ballot as her name has been ‘removed’ from the voters list, as single phase polling began at 7 am.
As Tamilnadu is voting today to elect members of its 16th Assembly, it is, by all accounts, an over-four-decade-old race between the AIADMK and the DMK though billed as a five-cornered contest showing three more contenders – AMMK-DMDK front, Kamal Haasan’s MNM alliance and Seeman’s NTK.
Of the total voter population of over six crore, the young voters in the 18-29 age group constitute one-sixth, that is, accounting for 1.37 crore.
The pandemic has posed a public health crisis and also been a major contributor to increasing hunger levels among underprivileged strata of society, disrupting the entire economic fabric of the country.