Tm Veeraraghav
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Opinion | Nainar Or Annamalai? How 2026 Will Shape BJP's Tamil Nadu Game Plan
At the moment, the BJP-AIADMK alliance needs a "Nainar" to make the partnership work. However, the outcome in 2026 will determine how long this calibration remains relevant.
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"Kanimozhi A Threat To Udhayanidhi Stalin, Denied Seat": Tamil Leader's Jibe
The DMK's seat arithmetic for the April 23 Tamil Nadu election has been panned by a regional party - the Nam Tamizhar Katchi - as a tactic to shield Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin, who is Chief Minister MK Stalin's son and is widely seen as
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Analysis: Vijay Set To Challenge DMK Chennai Bastion?
The battle for 16 Assembly segments in Chennai district during the April Tamil Nadu election will likely be a fierce contest between the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and actor Vijay's fledgling Tamil Vettri Kazhagam.
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Opinion | Why A TVK-NDA Alliance Is Just A BJP Fantasy
Politics is no stranger to unlikely alliances. But such "strange bedfellows" typically emerge after elections, when numbers dictate necessity.
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'We Are Preventing Communalism In Kerala': Muslim League Leader To NDTV
Many hardcore elements in Kerala are trying to bring minority communalism into the political system, but the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) is preventing that, the party's PK Kunhalikutty has said
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"If No IUML...": Congress's VD Satheesan Counters 'Communal Ally' Charge
Alleging a nexus between the BJP-ruled Centre and the CPM-led Kerala government, Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly, VD Satheeshan, said Chief Ministers in all non-BJP-ruled states, except Pinarayi Vijayan, are facing heat from central agencies
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How Congress Fell In Line And DMK Got its Way Again In Tamil Nadu
As the Congress and the DMK end their haggling and sign a seat-sharing arrangement for 2026, much like in 2021, a lot went on behind the scenes before the party eventually fell in line.
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Opinion | From Stand-In Chief Minister To Cadre: The 'OPS' Act In DMK's Politics
For MK Stalin, bringing OPS into the fold is a low-risk, high-reward bargain
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'Kerala' In Use From 2nd-Century BC: Shashi Tharoor's History Lesson On Name Change
The renaming of "Kerala" to "Keralam" is not just a "trivial" issue to focus on when key issues are going unattended, it also jettison's a name with far more antiquity, senior Congress leader and Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor has told NDTV.
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Why Congress Is Pushing For 40 Seats In Tamil Nadu
As seat-sharing negotiations intensify between the Congress and DMK, the Dravidian party is refusing to back down and has offered the Congress 25 seats that it offered the national party in 2021.
