There's trouble in the AIADMK-led front with long-time trusted' ally MDMK threatening to probe a third front option if its senior partner fails to improve on its offer of 12 seats to the party.
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CPI nears deal with AIAMKK, MDMK threatens to form third front
Posted by Divya (#1) 430 days ago (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com)Poll buff Vadivelu gets busy
Posted by Divya (#1) 433 days ago (http://www.deccanchronicle.com)
In an age when even iconic politicians switch loyalties and alliances at the drop of a hat, Vadivelu (38), a parotta master from Tiruchengode, stands apart.Even as his idol, AIADMK chief J.Jayalalithaa, is yet to finalize her poll alliance with other like-minded parties, the diehard AIADMK party worker is all set to drive his autorickshaw across the state in his trademark bright green t-shirt, sh
Jayalalithaa may opt out from Andipatti this election
Posted by Divya (#1) 433 days ago (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
Is the AIADMK supremo eyeing the new Kavundampalayam constituency in Coimbatore? Reliable party sources insist that the AIADMK general secretary J Jayalalithaa may test her electoral fortunes in the Kavundampalayam seat. For the newly-carved constituency apparently tops the list of AIADMK's winnable seats in Tamil Nadu. "We believe Kavundampalayam is a constituency which is the most favourable se
Even as poll pacts with the Left parties and MDMK are yet to be clinched, the AIADMK on Thursday closed a deal with actor Sarat Kumar, who heads a Nadar (most backward caste) outfit, the All-India Samathuva Makkal Katchi (AISMK), alloting two seats for the paty to contest in the assembly polls.
No party has won a mandate for a second term after MGR
Posted by Divya (#1) 433 days ago (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
Even as hectic lobbying for seats among alliance partners are going on for the 2011 assembly elections, a look at the past assembly election results in Tamil Nadu, especially after the death of AIADMK founder M G Ramachandran, shows that no party or front has been able to beat the anti-incumbency factor and secure a second term of office.
DMK-Congress talks on constituencies inconclusive
Posted by Divya (#1) 433 days ago (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
The DMK-Congress negotiations to narrow differences on choice of constituencies remained inconclusive on Thursday after the alliance partners compared their respective lists of seats they wanted to contest. With two rounds of talks failing to arrive at consensus, the parleys will be continued on Friday,even as some headway was made with the DMK apparently willing to cede T-Nagar, Velachery and My
Transgenders aiming for tickets this poll
Posted by Divya (#1) 433 days ago (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
She's used to being under the arclights. But when flashbulbs popped on Thursday afternoon, former TV chat show host and transgender Rose Venkatesan was announcing her decision to carve a career for herself in an equally exciting field