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Chief Minister Edappadi K Palanisamy after taking the oath of secrecy administered by Governor CH Vidyasagar Rao during the swearing-in ceremony at Raj Bhavan in Chennai. (Photo: PTI)

An accidental CM turns aspirational

The farmer image, Mr Palanisamy hopes, would help in the 2021 Assembly elections.

27 Feb 2020 1:36 AM IST

V.K. Sasikala, file picture (Image source: DC Image/N Sampath)

DC Edit l Inconsequential homecoming?

The common man wants to know if Sasikala can turn the politics of Tamil Nadu upside down

29 Jan 2021 4:15 AM IST

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) party president M. K. Stalin (top R) gestures to supporters during a rally after filing his nomination ahead of the Tamil Nadu state legislative assembly elections, in Chennai on March 15, 2021. (Arun SANKAR / AFP)

AA Edit | Competitive, compulsive: TN's poll freebie' culture

The 2021 freebie promise has been the most extensive on record with AIADMK offering a washing machine for each of about...

17 March 2021 8:47 AM IST

Sources say trouble is anticipated if Sasikala travels with the party flag on the car when she enters Hosur in Tamil Nadu from Attibelle in Karnataka. (Photo: DC)

AA Edit | Damp squib Sasikala

When it is known that she cannot stand for election for another six years, what was the need to announce that she was...

5 March 2021 8:50 AM IST

The regional majors the Trinamul Congress, the AIADMK and the DMK will have their bases intact whether they win or lose but power is a major factor that keeps them going. (Photo: AFP)

AA Edit | Stakes high in state polls

The stakes are high for the Congress, whether the party realises it or not

1 March 2021 4:04 AM IST

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Indian subnationalism past its expiry date?

Kerala, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, represent exemplar benchmarks for regionalism with deep political, social,...

11 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

CPM leader and Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, whose photograph is on right, addresses an election campaign wearing a mask in Kochi, on March 27, 2021. The southern state goes to polls on April 6 to elect members to its state legislature. (AP/R S Iyer)

AA Edit | South India is different: Hopes rest on Left, DMK

The Dravidian major DMK has similarly reduced the seats for the Congress in its alliance of Tamil forces aiming to...

3 April 2021 8:19 AM IST

Verdicts in TN, Kerala, Assam show political diversity rules

The masterminds behind the one nation, one party slogan should know they cannot hope to win across the entire country

3 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

AIADMK Coordinator O Panneerselvam, Joint Coordinator Edappadi K Palaniswami and other senior leaders during the partys General Council Meeting, in Chennai. (PTI Photo/R Senthil Kumar)

AA Edit | Lopsided power struggle in ADMK will end soon

Mr Palaniswami had meticulously cultivated a support base for him in the party unlike Mr Panneerselvam who remains more...

25 Jun 2022 7:44 AM IST

Edappadi K. Palaniswami

AA Edit | EPS: TN's man of all seasons

EPS proved wrong the naysayers, who were sceptical of him emerging as a leader in his own right to keep the AIADMK flock...

25 Feb 2023 12:15 AM IST

Senior AIADMK leader R Vaithilingam and State Ministers D Jayakumar and K T Rajendra Balaji said it has been decided that the present arrangement which gave full powers in the party to Palaniswami and Panneerselvam will continue. (Photo: PTI)

DC Edit | Is AIADMK turning a new leaf?

The succession strife in the prime Opposition party had a deleterious impact on the state's politics

30 March 2023 12:29 AM IST

AA Edit | TN alliance ties broken, but ...

BJP and AIADMK which are poles apart in terms of ideological proclamations, were forced into an arranged nuptial

9 March 2023 12:15 AM IST