Kept under lock and key in the treasury of the Karnataka government, housed in the Vidhan Soudha, Jayalalithaa’s properties were decreed to belong to the Tamil Nadu government by the Karnataka High Court in a judgment made last month.
In a setback for former Tamil Nadu chief minister E K Palaniswami, the Madras High Court on Wednesday gave the go ahead for the Election Commission to proceed with petitions on intra-party disputes in the AIADMK and challenging the legitimacy of the present leadership.
The DMK candidate VC Chandirakumar polled a whopping 1,15,709 voteswhile the NTK’s MK Seethalakshmi secured 24,151, accounting for 15.59 per cent.
With the principal opposition AIADMK and the BJP boycotting the February 5 crucial bypoll for the Tamil Nadu Assembly from Erode East constituency, both are apparently yielding the opposition political space to a resurgent 'Naam Tamilar Katchi' (NTK) of filmmaker Seeman, espousing Tamil nationalism.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tribute to the former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu MG Ramachandran on his 108th birth anniversary on Friday.
The plea seeks disqualification of Panneerselvam and 10 others for having voted against the Palaniswami government when they were in the rebel camp.
The Bench questioned the propriety of Speakers sitting in judgment on defectors indefinitely to safeguard the interest of the party on whose ticket he got elected.
Continuing his attack on the party's arch-rival, Palaniswami said the public is being confused by those parties 'which do not even have the people's support'.
The South superstar and founder of Makkal Needhi Maiam party said he fully supported young peoples' involvement in politics and warned the government that stifling of their voices, with those of other concerned citizens, would not be tolerated.
The incident comes barely 2 months after a woman techie died after she was run over by a water tanker as she fell down on the road when an illegal hoarding put up by a ruling AIADMK functionary fell on her.
