Prime Minister Narendra Modi has hailed the coming together of the BJP and the AIADMK ahead of the Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu in 2026.
With Shah clearing the air on who will lead the NDA in the assembly poll, he had ensured the return of the Dravidian major into the saffron combine.
A fierce backlash over the derogatory and misogynistic remarks made by a senior DMK minister, K Ponmudy, linking sex workers to religion, forced party president and Chief Minister MK Stalin to strip him of his post in the DMK.
“You know who were in alliance before 2014 and what Tamil Nadu got back then,” he said, rejecting the claims of neglect.
The Centre will soon convene a meeting of the riparian states on Karnataka's proposal to increase the height of the Alamatti Dam, a move opposed by neighbouring Tamil Nadu, where the DMK, an alliance partner, is in power.
Even as the Marxist party stops short of calling the Modi regime fascist, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK president MK Stalin has made it clear that defeating fascism and bringing to a close the BJP rule at the Centre is a prerequisite for federalism to blossom in the country.
More than half a century after the tiny rocky islet Katchatheevu in the Palk Strait was ceded to Sri Lanka, the Tamil Nadu Assembly passed a unanimous resolution demanding the Union government to retrieve it so as to protect the livelihood and traditional rights of Indian fishermen and secure the release of fishers still incarcerated in the island nation.
Describing both the BJP and the DMK as fascist with oppressive leadership, actor-turned-neta and Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) founder-president Vijay on Friday claimed that the saffron party is the secret boss of the DMK and vowed to unseat the Dravidian major in the 2026 assembly election.
A mob claiming to be ‘sanitation workers’ barged into the residence of popular YouTuber 'Savukku’ Shankar alias A Shankar, a critic of the ruling DMK, and vandalised with human excreta and drainage waste in the city on Monday.
Lambasting the DMK on the three-language policy, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Friday that the regional party was using the matter to hide its corruption, and also promised that after December, he would exchange letters with people from different states in their mother tongues only.
