Months after the death of PMK leader and Vanniyar Sangam chief Kaduvetti Guru, a storm is brewing in his family. While his son, daughter and other relatives make shocking charges against PMK founder S Ramadoss, Guru’s wife Latha is in support of the party high command.
Author: M Bhaskar Sai
Learning a lesson or two from past polls, in which the DMK ‘believes’ its decision to allot more constituencies to alliance partners cost it dearly, the party, now led by M K Stalin, is apparently in no mood to share more seats with its ‘friends’ in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
Seeman, Velmurugan, Gowthaman, Thirumurugan Gandhi, Bharathiraja. These leaders, known for vociferously raising their voice over almost anything and everything that ‘affects the interest of Tamils’, have come under criticism for staying out of the scene when the delta region, the heartland of Tamilnadu, faced Cyclone Gaja that wreaked havoc last week.
M K Stalin is now the supremo of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, and with the country getting ready for parliamentary polls, parties are ganging up against the ruling BJP and leaders from across the country are visiting the ‘Kazhaga Thalaivar – Thalapathy’.
By launching protests against Vijay-starrer Sarkar, the ruling AIADMK has, in fact, done a huge favour to its arch-rival DMK. For, it was the main Opposition party which had more reasons to sulk about the movie, bankrolled by its leadership’s extended family-run Sun Pictures.
Tamilnadu politics, known for high drama and adrenaline-pumping action, is lately witnessing emotional scenes, with top leaders reminding one of character artistes in Tamil cinema with sentiments pouring out in their statements and actions.
The by-elections will also decide the fate of Chief Minister Edappadi K Palanisami and his deputy O Panneerselvam, DMK president M K Stalin and AMMK leader TTV Dhinakaran.
While this is the season of sequels in Tamil cinema thanks to Tamizh Padam 2, Vishwaroopam 2, Saamy Square, Sandakozhi 2Â and 2.0, it is also the time for a sequel in Tamilnadu politics. Nearly after two years, the second round of ‘resort politics’ has resumed.
Traffic would normally be heavy on Monday mornings and today, owing to the return of people to the city after the long weekend, things became worse.