Tamil Nadu Assembly Election

The opposition AIADMK on Thursday said it will not go back on its decision of severing ties with the BJP and reiterated that the party would cobble up an alliance for the 2024 Lok Sabha poll and the next assembly election too.

Karnataka CM Swearing-In Ceremony: Among those who have been invited are Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin, and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.

The Congress, within touching distance of victory in Karnataka, started ringfencing its MLAs as it crossed the halfway mark in leads today.

The Edappadi K Palaniswami-led AIADMK in Tamil Nadu on Monday said the party's lone candidate fielded for the May 10 Karnataka Assembly polls has withdrawn from the race following a request from the BJP.

The growing unease between Tamil Nadu allies, the AIADMK and the BJP, has spilled over into neighbouring Karnataka, which goes to Assembly polls next month.

Specifically targeting Chief Minister MK Stalin, Mr Annamalai alleged he was paid a bribe of two hundred crore rupees for favouring a company to secure the contract for Chennai Metro Rail ahead of the 2011 assembly elections when DMK was in power.

O Panneerselvam, the beleaguered AIADMK leader who has been waging a legal battle to establish his hold over the party as its coordinator, on Friday announced that his party would contest the Lok Sabha election next year.

The assembly by-election results today brought some solace for the Congress as it wrested one seat each from the BJP and the TMC in Maharashtra and West Bengal respectively and retained a seat in Tamil Nadu with DMK's support,

The counting of votes for bye-elections to one assembly constituency each in Arunachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, and two assembly seats in Maharashtra began on Thursday.

AIADMK's O Panneerselvam on Monday attacked the Edapaddi K Palaniswami (EPS) faction, accusing them of betraying party regulations.

Former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami also accused the DMK government of failing to fulfil any of the 2021 assembly election promises.

The opposition AIADMK candidate K S Thennarasu filed his nomination papers for the Erode East Assembly bypoll on the last day for filing of nominations today after the O Panneerselvam faction opted out of the race.

The PM's visit assumes significance as it comes less than six months before Assembly elections in Karnataka, and bitter battles between Centre-appointed Governors and ruling parties in several states.

After scoring a hat-trick by winning Lok Sabha, rural local body and assembly elections, Chief Minister MK Stalin is aiming for a fourth consecutive win for his DMK

The BJP spent Rs 252 crore in the assembly elections held in Assam, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Kerala earlier this year with almost 60 per cent used for campaigning in the Trinamool Congress-ruled state.

The opposition AIADMK on Thursday said it will not go back on its decision of severing ties with the BJP and reiterated that the party would cobble up an alliance for the 2024 Lok Sabha poll and the next assembly election too.

Karnataka CM Swearing-In Ceremony: Among those who have been invited are Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin, and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.

The Congress, within touching distance of victory in Karnataka, started ringfencing its MLAs as it crossed the halfway mark in leads today.

The Edappadi K Palaniswami-led AIADMK in Tamil Nadu on Monday said the party's lone candidate fielded for the May 10 Karnataka Assembly polls has withdrawn from the race following a request from the BJP.

The growing unease between Tamil Nadu allies, the AIADMK and the BJP, has spilled over into neighbouring Karnataka, which goes to Assembly polls next month.

Specifically targeting Chief Minister MK Stalin, Mr Annamalai alleged he was paid a bribe of two hundred crore rupees for favouring a company to secure the contract for Chennai Metro Rail ahead of the 2011 assembly elections when DMK was in power.

O Panneerselvam, the beleaguered AIADMK leader who has been waging a legal battle to establish his hold over the party as its coordinator, on Friday announced that his party would contest the Lok Sabha election next year.

The assembly by-election results today brought some solace for the Congress as it wrested one seat each from the BJP and the TMC in Maharashtra and West Bengal respectively and retained a seat in Tamil Nadu with DMK's support,

The counting of votes for bye-elections to one assembly constituency each in Arunachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, and two assembly seats in Maharashtra began on Thursday.

AIADMK's O Panneerselvam on Monday attacked the Edapaddi K Palaniswami (EPS) faction, accusing them of betraying party regulations.

Former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami also accused the DMK government of failing to fulfil any of the 2021 assembly election promises.

The opposition AIADMK candidate K S Thennarasu filed his nomination papers for the Erode East Assembly bypoll on the last day for filing of nominations today after the O Panneerselvam faction opted out of the race.

The PM's visit assumes significance as it comes less than six months before Assembly elections in Karnataka, and bitter battles between Centre-appointed Governors and ruling parties in several states.

After scoring a hat-trick by winning Lok Sabha, rural local body and assembly elections, Chief Minister MK Stalin is aiming for a fourth consecutive win for his DMK

The BJP spent Rs 252 crore in the assembly elections held in Assam, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Kerala earlier this year with almost 60 per cent used for campaigning in the Trinamool Congress-ruled state.