Want to become a politician in Tamilnadu? And wondering what are the basic qualifications? Well, to start with, you have to get the following certificates from the following people / parties – community certificate from the DMK, nativity certificate from Naam Tamizhar Katchi’s Seeman and nationality certificate from BJP leader H Raja.
Author: M Bhaskar Sai
Ramalingam, a Hindu by birth and practice, a catering contractor by profession and a PMK functionary, was hacked to death by a gang, hours after he opposed a group of Muslims who proselytising in a Dalit colony in Tirubhuvanam, a town near Kumbakonam.
Even second-rung leaders are not being kept in the loop, in a bid to maintain confidentiality, say sources in at least two parties.
Congress sources say Alagiri, who had served as MLA and MP, is a talented speaker with strong negotiation skills. “This is one of the reasons behind Rahul ticking Alagiri’s name for the State Congress chief post. The Congress high command wants to get as many seats as possible from the DMK and Alagiri is entrusted with this task,” sources say.
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has created waves in Tamilnadu, at least among the leaders and members of the State’s Congress unit, after she was appointed the party’s general secretary by her brother and Congress president Rahul Gandhi.
The Council of Leather Exports (CLE), a trade promotion organisation under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, is to work towards expanding the reach of the Indian leather industry and has lined up many initiatives to achieve the mission.
While Bharatiya Janata Party’s social media team took on #GoBackModi with #MaduraiThanksModi & #TNWelcomesModi, and the police and the BJP workers ‘handled’ protesters and posters on streets, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during his Madurai visit Sunday, laid the foundation stone for not just AIIMS, but also his party’s alliance for the fast approaching Lok Sabha elections.
Leaders, cadres & rebels. Tamilnadu’s politics is made up of these three sets. If Lok Sabha Deputy Speaker M Thambidurai is now speaking against AIADMK forging an alliance with the BJP, a stand which is not that of his party (as clarified by Fisheries Minister D Jayakumar, who has emerged as the de facto spokesperson of the government and the AIADMK), it is in his political genes.
After ‘thyagam’ and ‘dhrogam’, Tamilnadu politics now revolves around ‘yagam’, for Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam is being accused of performing ‘yagna for CM post’ at the Secretariat.