T Rajendar on Vaiko

As I was talking about T Rajendar 's speech on Vaiko, a funny one, my friend Karthik K(Mike), received a forward, and so he has sent me the same. Everyone knows that TR's speech is always funny/rhyming & there won't be any meaning or effect.

Thanks Mike!!

 

TamilNadu Election Results 2006

TamilNadu Assembly Election 2006 Results

	Constituency holdings of DMK Alliance Partners DMK 96 / 132 Congress 34 / 48 PMK 18 / 31 CPI(M) 9 / 13 CPI 6 / 10     Total 163 / 234		Constituency holdings of AIADMK Alliance Partners AIADMK 61 / 188 MDMK 6 / 35 DPI 2 / 9 Others 1 / 1 Total 69 / 233		Vijayakanth - DMDK DMDK 1 / 232     Total 1 / 232
					Independents IND 1 / 1222     Total 1 /1222

 

	Alliance	Constituencies Won	Percentage (%)
	DMK+	163	69
	ADMK+	69	30

 

Opinion Poll for TamilNadu Election 2006

After a long illness, im back yesterday, and today only I could bring this Opinion Polling.. 

 [Poll closed] Click here for Results.

Opinion Poll for TamilNadu Assembly Election 2006 is open till Sunday (7th of May). Also we are working with the old data & some other factors to bring the ARASIYALTALK.com forecasting for the viewers....

Comments can be posted here.....

 

 

Opinion Poll for TamilNadu Assembly election 2006

An independent, nonpartisan opinion poll is going to come in this section very soon.

The opinion poll is expected to have 4 alliance group.

1. J Jayalalitha led AIADMK 

2. BJP & JP

3. M Karunanidhi 's DMK & UPA

4. Vijayakanth 's DMDK

The Opinion poll is scheduled for the next week.

[Poll closed] Click here for Results. May 10th 2006

 

DMDK Vijayakanth gets Murasu Symbol

For the forthcoming TamilNadu Assembly Election 2006, Vijayakanth gets Murasu symbol for his party in most of the places. This is the first time, DMDK (Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kalagam) is going face the election, that too in a tough period.

After the party (DMDK) being formed, he was in tour, covering the most places. And now he could have covered every bit of TamilNadu. But I feel its a wrong idea of his, to contest in Virudhachalam constituency. The best said reason was some of his last(latest) movie was not played in the cinema halls in Virudachalam area, due to PMK. But PMK is very strong in Virudachalam, with a vote bank of 30+ % alone, so now adds the DMK & Congress have a combined votebank of 30, which gives PMK 60+. So, what is Vijayakanth 's plan to break this ??

Let us pray atleast one Murasu to enter the Assembly!! (Hope his party gets atleast one MLA) Captain Vijayakanth MLA !!! Let the DRUM not get beaten up by others!!!

 

ADMK 's P C Ramasamy denied ticket in Modakurichi

In the last minute, sitting MLA of Modakurichi & the Minister for Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments was given seat to contest in the forthcoming TamilNadu Assembly election 2006 in the same constituency was taken over, suddenly he (P. C. Ramasamy) was replaced by V. P. Namasivayam.

Modakurichi Assembly constituency had 1033 contestants in 1996 TamilNadu Assembly Election. Result was like there was some contestants bagging 0 votes. So, I hope this is a world record, may be like no one could have checked it!!! So few people are aware of this constituency, which is in Erode District. The current Minister of State Ms. Subbu Lakshmi Jegadeesan, was the DMK contestant in 1996, and she was elected to power. And in 2001 Assembly election, Subbu Lakshmi Jegadeesan lost in the same contituency to P C Ramasamy of AIADMK.

And in 2004 General Election DMK President M Karunanidhi placed her as Parliamentary Constituent contestant, and she won. DMK has a strong hold in this Modakurichi Constituency from 80 's. But this time, I don't know why DMK have given this place to Congress, which fields Palanisamy(hopefully a supporter of EVKS Elangovan).

Along with PC Ramasamy of Modakurichi Constituency, J Jayalalitha have replaced the Palani Constituency candidate R Tamilarasi by S Prema.

	AC No	AC Name	New Candidate	Old Candidate
	118	Modakurichi	Palanisamy	P C Ramasamy
	129	Palani	S. Prema	Tamilarasi

The updated AIADMK Candidate list for Assembly Election 2006 is here.

Update :

AIADMK lost Modakurichi Constituency to Palanisamy, a congress Candidate in 3860 votes.

 

Sarathkumar joins ADMK

Well known Tamil Cine actor and DMK Rajya Sabha MP, R Sarath Kumar, resigned from the primary membership of the DMK party a week back. And now he joined the AIADMK in the presence of Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa in Theni. Also his wife and famous Cine Actress Radhika joined in ADMK.

Last week when he sent a resignation letter to the DMK chief M Karunanidhi, he was silent about his MP Post. So I was concluding like, after elections he may re-join the party. Also, many programmes hosted in Sun TV(also in the whole Sun Network) was produced by Radaan TV, which is owned by Radhika. So we came to a conclusion that, they won't move from DMK.

But, Elango a friend of mine told me that he is getting ready to join AIADMK, which I considered as a rumour, but it happened.

Sarathkumar said, "After hectic consultations with fans, people in close circles and the public, I have taken this decision. It might be a delayed one. But the decision was final."

Sarathkumar had joined the DMK in 1998, and in the same year he contested for the Lok Sabha from Tirunelveli Parliamentary Constituency and lost his victory to ADMK candidate in just 6900 votes(1.5%)

The main reason could be :

1. Sarathkumar could have asked a seat for Radhika in the coming TamilNadu Assembly Election 2006, that too in some particular constituency where his caste have a upper hand.

2. Previously it was said (mostly a rumour) that they had some problem with Maran family (Sun Network) since many of their TV serials in Tamil is just dubbed to other channels in the languages like Telugu, Malayalam & Kannada. And Radhika was asking for some more money etc.,

3. In my view, if AIADMK comes to power this time, DMK can't come to power in future. So, the couples planned and quit. May be also they might have some problems with someone strong in DMK!!

 

DMDK Vijayakanth to contest in virudachalam

DMDK 's president & Tamil Cine Actor Vijayakanth is going to contest in Virudachalam Assembly Constituency. For 140 constituencies, DMDK have released its candidate list, which includes Vijayakanth in Virudhachalam.

In 1991 & 1996 PMK got 32% of the polled vote against both ADMK & DMK. So, PMK is very strong in this Constituency.

Other Contestants for TN Assembly Election 2006 in Vridhachalam Constituency  :

PR Kasinathan - ADMK

Govindaraj - PMK

Theoretical Forecasting :

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		DMDK	PMK	AIADMK	DMK	MDMK
1991		na	32	45	20	na
1996		na	32	23	37	4.1
2001		na	50	pmk*	44	1.2
##		+10 %	-6	-2	-2
			30+35-5	20+2-2
2006^		20+	55	20	pmk*	admk*

## Considering DMDK gets votebank from other parties. 

na - Not Applicable due to Party nonexistence

All Values are in % based on the parties vote bank in that respective year.

^ - Forecasted values for 2006 Election

* - In Alliance with

As per our Theoretical Forecasting, Vijayakanth will not win in Virudhachalam Constituency. 
But, there will be a greater SWING(WAVE), which can give him a victory, so only he is contesting. But many people are saying that Vijayakanth will Lose !!!

Update :  *Im wrong* Vijayakanth made it. He wins the Virudachalam constituency on his own!!

 

Thirumavalavan 's DPI Candidate List for Election 2006

Thirumavalavan 's DPI was the first one to join hands with Dr. J Jayalalithaa for Tamil Nadu Assembly election 2006, and she alloted 9 seats. And the candidate list is below :

AC - Assembly Constituency

AC No	AC Name	Candidate Name
27	Sriperumbudur	K Ilamaran
42	Chengam	P Attralarasu
59	Mugaiyur	MS Chinthanaiselvan
61	Ulundurpet	E Vijayaraghavan
67	Kattumannarkoil	D RaviKumar
70	Mangalore	K Selvaperunthagai
79	Harur	K Govindasamy
110	Valparai	Susi Kalaiarasan
169	Sirkali	P Unjai Arasan

 

DMK Candidate List for Election 2006

DMK announced its candidate list, in which DMK candidates are of 127 in number & 5 from other small unrecognized parties contesting in 'Rising SUN' symbol. So a total of 132 candidates are contesting in DMK Symbol Rising SUN.

As usual M Karunanidhi from Chepauk and his Son & Thousand Lights sitting MLA MK Stalin from the same constituency.

Unlike AIADMK, DMK has the same old list of people

 

PMK Candidate List for Election 2006

Dr Ramadass of PMK showed out 29 candidate list out of alloted 31 by DMK. PMK is in alliance with DMK (UPA) from 2004 General election to the Lok Sabha, and so, M Karunanidhi alloted 31 against, 27 seats they contested last time (2001).

AC - Assembly Constituency

AC No	AC Name	Candidate Name
14	Saidapet	CR Baskaran
15	Gummidipundi	Durai Jayavel
21	Tirupporur	T Moorthy
22	Chengalpattu	K Arumugam
26	Kancheepuram	Sakthi Kamalammal
30	Tiruttani	Ravi Raj
35	Arcot	KL Illawarasan
41	Tiruppattur	TK Raja
45	Kalasapakkam	Kalidoss
52	Peranamallur	Aedhiroli Manimaran
53	Melmalayanur	Senthamizh Selvan
55	Tindivanam	Karunanidhi
56	Vanur	SoundarRaj
59	Mugaiyur	VAP Kalivaradhan
64	Panruti	VelMurugan
66	Bhuvanagiri	Devadas Andavar
69	Vridhachalam	Govindasamy
76	Kaveripattinam	Meghanathan
81	Palacode	Mannan
84	Mettur	GK Mani
85	Taramangalam	Kannan
86	Omalur	Tamilarasu
97	Kapilamalai	Nedunchelian
100	Edapadi	P Kaveri
121	Bhavani	Ramanathan
161	Varahur	Gopi
164	Jayankondam	J Guru
170	Poompuhar	Periyasamy
188	Thiruvidamarudur	Allayamani

For Pennagaram & Anaicut constituency PMK didn't confirm still.

 

MDMK Candidate List for Election 2006

MDMK joined AIADMK led alliance for TamilNadu Assembly Election 2006, and will contest in 35 constituencies. After ADMK & DMK, MDMK released its candidate list for the election. Also, this is the first time for Vaiko 's  MDMK to get into alliance in the Assembly Election. In 1996 & 2001 they contested alone, & lost all the seats. So this time we can expect at least 10 to 20 MLA 's from MDMK into the Tamil Nadu Assembly.  All the Best Mr. Vaiko !!!

AC - Assembly Constituency

AC No	AC Name	Candidate Name
2	Harbour	Sheema Basheer
5	Perambur	Manimaran
7	Egmore	Mullai Sathya
8	Anna Nagar	Vijaya Thayanbhan
20	Tambaram	Palavakkam Somu
28	Poonamallee	TRR Sengootuvan
41	Tiruppattur	KS Alagiri
48	Vellore	Subramani
54	Gingee	Masilamani
62	Nellikuppam	Sabapathy Mohan
65	Kurinjipadi	Ramalingam
82	Dharmapuri	VS Sambath
85	Taramangalam	Thamarai Kannan
97	Kapilamalai	Gurusamy
103	Thondamuthur	M Kannan
113	Vellakoil	Ganesa Moorthy
116	Tiruppur	S Duraisamy
125	Sathyamangalam	TK Subramaniam
134	Cumbum	Ramakrishnan
137	Thirumangalam	Veera Ilavarasan
144	Madurai East	Boominathan
148	Dindigul	SelvaRaghavan
151	Aravakurichi	P Ramasamy
156	Thottiam	Natarajan
166	Tiruchirapalli-I	MalarMannan
171	Mayuram	Mahalingam
179	Pattukkottai	Viswanathan
198	Sivaganga	Sevanthiyappan
201	Ramanathapuram	Karate Palanisamy
206	Virudhunagar	Varadharajan
207	Sivakasi	R Gnanadoss
214	Vasudevanallur	Sudhan Thirumalaikumar
216	Tenkasi	Rama Udhayasuriyan
224	Sattangulam	Nasareith Durai
229	Nagercoil	RathinaRaj

Total 35 Constituencies

 

DMK Manifesto : Assembly Election 2006

DMK President M.Karunanidhi releases his party 's Manifesto. It supports farmers & women.

• Quality rice at Rs. 2 a kg on ration cards.
• Free colour TV to every family for women’s recreation and
  general knowledge.
• Maternity assistance to pregnant women at Rs.1000 per
  month for 6 months.
• Free electricity to Weavers in addition to farmers.
• 2 acres of land to the landless poor families.
• Waiver of cooperative loans in the event of death of farmers.
• Reservation Act for Muslims and Christians.
• Old age pension increased to Rs.400/-

and many....

For full list of DMK 's Manifesto_for TN Election 2006(PDF).

 

 

K. Kalimuthu out from AIADMK List

This monday AIADMK announced its list of 182 candidates for TamilNadu Assembly Election 2006, which is scheduled for this May. Yesterday, they have changed the 4 contestant which includes, K. Kalimuthu, former Speaker of the Tamil Nadu Assembly. Its said that he was picked out due to his physical unfitness, so we can expect him in

 

ADMK Vs DMK

List of Assembly Constituecies where AIADMK & DMK are going to field its candidate. By this weekend its expected that, both AIADMK & DMK to announce the candidate list. Last week itself both the parties announced the break up of

 

ADMK Candidate list

for TN election 2006

AIADMK announces its candidate list for TamilNadu Assembly Election 2006

AC - Assembly Constituency


 

Small Parties in AIADMK alliance break up :

MMK    - Muvendar Munetra Kazhagam
INTUC  - Indian National Trade Union Congress
IDL      - Indiya Desiya League
IUML    - Indian Union Muslim League
FBL     - All India Forward Bloc
JD(S)  - Janta Dal (Secular)

MMK - Muvendar Munetra Kazhagam INTUC - Indian National Trade Union Congress IDL - Indiya Desiya League IUML - Indian Union Muslim League FBL - All India Forward Bloc JD(S) - Janta Dal (Secular)

 

Thol. Thirumavalavan 's DPI constituencies for TN Election 2006

Sriperumbudur
Chengam
Mugaiyur
Ulundurpet
Kattumannarkoil
Mangalore
Harur
Valparai
Sirkali

See also : DPI Bags 9 seats

 

MDMK Constituencies

Harbour Perambur Egmore Anna Nagar Tambaram Poonamallee Tiruppattur Vellore Gingee Nellikuppam Kurinjipadi Dharmapuri

Taramangalam Kapilamalai Thondamuthur Vellakoil Tiruppur Sathyamangalam Cumbum Thirumangalam Madurai East Dindigul Aravakurichi Thottiam

Tiruchirapalli-I Mayuram Pattukkottai Sivaganga Ramanathapuram Virudhunagar Sivakasi Vasudevanallur Tenkasi Sattangulam Nagercoil

See Also : Vaiko joins AIADMK

 

AIADMK to contest in 182 seats
 

CPI, CPM & IUML contesting Assembly Constituencies in TN Election 2006

 

Congress contesting Assembly Constituencies in TN Election 2006

     48 seats

 

 

PMK contesting Assembly Constituencies for TN Election 2006

    31 Seats

Saidapet Gummidipundi Tirupporur Chengalpattu Kancheepuram Tiruttani Arcot

Tiruppattur Kalasapakkam Anaicut Melmalayanur Tindivanam Vanur

Mugaiyur Panruti Bhuvanagiri Vridhachalam Kaveripattinam Palacode

Pennagaram Mettur Taramangalam Omalur Kapilamalai Edapadi

Bhavani Peranamallur Varahur Jayankondam Poompuhar Thiruvidamarudur

 

DMK contesting Assembly Constituencies

For the First time ever, DMK contest in very less number of seats : 129

Constituency list where DMK is going to contest
 

MK lists the break up of DPA member s' Constituency

DMK President & TN DPA Leader M Karunanidhi, lists the break up of DMK & other DPA members constituencies. As said before, Congress has been allotted 48 seats, PMK 31, CPI (M) 13, CPI 10, and IUML 3.

The term for the Tamil Nadu Assembly is going to expire this 21st May 2006, so Election Commission of India announced the elections to TamilNadu & other states whose term is also expiring viz., Assam, Kerala, West Bengal & Pondicherry. From that time, the Big B in the TN politics where busy. And, last week Dr. M Karunanidhi finalized the seats for the other DPA member parties like Congress (INC), CPI, CPM & PMK.

This evening, DMK releases Constituency - wise break up of the DPA parties. As said before DMK i going to contest in 129 places only, for majority they have to get ( 234/2 = 117) + 1  i.e,118. The turn out ratio for DMK to form a majority government is 118/129*100 which is 91.74 %. Getting 91.74% is impossible, so there is only a possibility of a Coalition government, if and only if DMK alliance gets the *majority* than AIADMK alliance.

 

Seat sharing : TN Election 2006

As TamilNadu Assembly term is going to expire this May 2006, the Election Commission of India (ECI) announced date for conducting polls in the state. Since then, all the major parties in TamilNadu were busy in negotiating seats with their allies. Unexpectedly Vaiko, join hands with AIADMK to face the TN Assembly election 2006, and others are as usual. But still BJP & Vijayakanth 's stance is not clear, since the two parties announced that they are going to face the election alone, making the 4 axial competition viz., AIADMK, DMK Led UPA, BJP & Vijayakanth 's DMDK. There is more than a month so there is a possibility of BJP joining AIADMK led alliance.

DMK & Allies :

PMK	Congress	CPI	CPI(M)	UML	DMK		Total
31	48	10	13	3 *	129		234

* Union Muslim League will contest in DMK symbol Rising Sun, so DMK is contesting in 132 seats (129 + 3) in total.

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AIADMK & Allies :

MDMK	DPI	AIADMK		Total
35	9	190 *		234

* J Jayalalitha is talking with other small unrecognized parties, which may in total get 15 seats or less. So, AIADMK will contest in 175 seats minimum. 

 

Stance : BJP & Vijayakanth (DMDK)

On March 01 of this month, Election Commission announced the Polling Date for the TamilNadu Assembly Election 2006. Since then, the major political parties are settling with their alliance & seat sharing talks with their Allies. And on today, most of the parties are getting ready to prepare the list of candidates for the May 2006 Tamil Nadu Assembly Election. But Bharathiya Janatha Party(BJP) & Vijayakanth 's Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK) says, they want to contest on their own.

For BJP which was a ally of DMK in 2001 TN Assembly Election, contested in 21 places & captured 4 seats to the Assembly and got around 3.2 % of total polled votes. And in 2004 Lok Sabha Election it was voted out of power from the central cabinet ministery & also in TamilNadu they tied-up with ruling AIADMK & lost all the 6 seats and got a total of 4 % of  polled votes. So their total  weightage will not be more than 5%. So, if they contest in all 234 seats, they will get only 2 to 3 seats to the maximum. And take Vaiko(MDMK) for example in 2001 TN Assebly Election, they lost all the 214 contested seats & even forfeited the deposits in 205 places with around 5.6% of polled votes. No one expected it & even I thought that they will get around 3 to 5 seats. So, in my view its not advisable for BJP to contest alone. Else if they joins AIADMK, Chief Minister of TamilNadu & AIADMK Head J Jayalalitha will allot not more than 25 seats. And in that, BJP can win 10 seats to the maximum, something is better than nothing!!

But for Vijayakanth 's DMDK the issues are different. For them it is the first election, & the party have only one plus point is that "karuppu MGR" Vijayakanth. In 100 % of the total voters in TamilNadu,  60% & are lower class people & 30% are from Middle class & 10% are from upper middle class & above. As a popular cine actor Vijayakanth 's total members in his all Fan club competes with that of Rajinikanth, the Super Star of Tamil Cinema & dazzling icon of the indian cine industry. In total voters, there is a possibility of karuppu MGR to get around 10% in which lower class people votes comprises 6-7% and other 2% each. Actually this vote bank is just a theoretical one,  which was given by many Tamil Magazines. But, the mass gathering happened on his party opening ceremony was so much, which is still happening in all his tours, so that can be true. So, we can't say exactly, how much votebank he has, and I feel, that his votebank is mainly taken from DMK & PMK. Still Vijayakanth says that he want to contest alone, but anything may happen!!!

But, as told by magazines, DMDK has a vote bank of 10%, which when contest alone can get 15 seats to the maximum. May be like, they can avoid losing deposits in 70 assembly constituency thats all.

BJP & DMDK (Vijayakanth) together ?

News are coming that BJP is talking with DMDK for alliance & so there is also a possibility that they can join. But for Vijayakanth, it is better he can join J Jayalalitha led AIADMK alliance or to contest alone. If he join hands with BJP, then he can't blame all political parties in general, since his ally is also a Major political party. And if he contest alone, he can campaign like  : none of the parties are doing great, so give us a change or something like that. But either way he can get a maximum of 15 - 20 seats, which is also considered to be very high.

 

PMK gets 31 seats from DMK

Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) one of the member of DPA Alliance gets 31 seats to contest in the forthcoming 2006 TamilNadu Assembly Election. PMK Leader Dr. Ramdoss was discussing daily with DMK President & Tamil Nadu DPA Head M Karunanidhi for the past 1 week regarding seats for his party Pattali Makkal Katchi. It looks like he asked for 35 seats & was given only 23 before Vaiko 's Quit. And later when Vaiko joined AIADMK alliance, M Karunanidhi offered 28 to PMK. And after 4 visits to MK 's house, Dr Ramdoss made it to 31.

In 2001 assembly polls, PMK contested in 27 places & won 20 in alliance with the AIADMK. They got around 5.5% of the total votes. And in 2004 Lok Sabha polls, PMK won all the 5 allotted Parlimentary Constituency seats like other parties in Democratic Progressive Alliance.

 

Congress to contest in 48 places

Congress, the second largest party in DPA has been allotted 48 seats by DMK for this Tamil Nadu Assembly Election 2006. Another MK (M Krishnasamy) the newly appointed president for TamilNadu Congress Committee (TNCC) & DMK Leader M Karunanidhi signed the agreement today.

Actually, people are thinking that 48 seats are more than expected for Congress from DMK. But it is not so. In the last 2001 TamilNadu Assembly Election there was Moopanar Congress, widely called as Tamil Manila Congress (TMC) & INC, and both parties allied with J Jayalalitha (AIADMK) and contested in 32 (TMC) + 14 (INC) Assembly Constituencies, totally 46. So, this is the first Assembly election the Congress is facing after the merger. Also, Mr. P Chidambaram 's Congress Jananayaka Peravai (CJP), mergered with Congres, which contested in DMK 's symbol in Purasaiwakam & Kattumanarkoil. So, we have to take like last time 45 & this time its just 48.

Congress, have a very goodname this time, since we have Dr. Manmohan singh the clean handed economist as PM, and his counsel of ministers like P Chidambaram, Jaipal Reddy have very good names in general. Also, people have a better feel than its predecessor BJP. So in my opinion, Congress is worth to have 60 , but as we know *beggars have no choice*

 

CPI was allotted 10 seats

 

The Communist Party of India (CPI) has been allotted 10 seats as part of the DMK led DPA front for the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections 2006. Also, CPI is the first party in the front to finalise the seat-sharing arrangement with the DMK.

In 2001 assembly polls, CPI contested in 8 places & won 5 seats in alliance with the AIADMK. And in 2004 Lok Sabha polls, Communist Party of India won the 2 Parlimentary Constituency seats Tenkasi (SC) and Coimbatore, which was alloted by the DMK in DPA alliance.

An agreement to this effect was today signed by the state CPI secretary D Pandiyan and DMK President M Karunanidhi.

 

VAIKO (MDMK) joined AIADMK

for TN Assembly Election 2006

Amma offers 35

Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK) allied with Tamil Nadu's ruling All - India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) for forthcoming Tamil Nadu Assebly Election 2006. MDMK general secretary Vaiko met AIADMK general secretary and Chief Minister Jayalalitha at her Poes Garden residence here on Saturday and together they announced that the MDMK would contest 35 seats in the May 8 2006 Assembly elections.

So, as of now AIADMK Allies are :  MDMK (35 seats ) + DPI ( 9 seats )

It was also said that M Karunanidhi offered 22 seats to MDMK, indeed Vaiko asked for 25.

Vaiko said the AIADMK-led alliance would "sweep" the polls. "This is the finest hour in the political history of Tamil Nadu. The alliance is a formidable one".

But two weeks back, V Gopalasamy (Vaiko) said, "I was in the prison under Prevention of Terrorism Act for 19 months. MDMK is a movement full of self-respect. I will not give up self-respect at any cost." He also added, "We will fight till the end and will not knee down before anybody."

J Jayalalitha told press,  "We do not believe in turning back. We believe in looking at the future and the future is going to be glorious for the AIADMK and the MDMK." This is mainly said to make soft about VAIKO 's imprisonment for over 18 months under POTA.

Its is expected that Amma is waiting for Vijayakanth to get in. In that case it will be a big + for Amma 

Also, Vaiko said, despite of  the electoral ties with the AIADMK, the MDMK would be part of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) in the centre.

 

TamilNadu Assembly Election 2006

Polling Date announced

Assembly elections in Kerala, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Assam and Pondicherry will take place between April 3 and May 8, the Election Commission announced today.

For TamilNadu :

Nominations Starts	13th April 2006
Last Date for Making Nominations	20th April 2006
Last Date for Withdrawal of Candidate	24th April 2006
Date of Poll	8 th May 2006
Counting of Votes	11th May 2006

Unlike Other states, 234 Assembly Constituency in TamilNadu is going for poll on the same day i.e, 8^th May. Counting of votes in all the states will take place on May 11. The election dates for the other states are in a link below.

Also, the way of indelible ink applied was now changed. Previously, ink was being applied as a dot on the joint between the nail and the skin of the left forefinger of the electors in order to prevent bogus voting. In the new model indelible ink will be applied as a line running from top of the nail to the bottom of first joint of the left fore-finger.

Old Model

New Model

For detailed news & the dates for other states can be checked in Election Commission site.

 

Thirumavalavan(DPI)  join

hands with Jayalalithaa

DPI Bags 9 seats

Thirumavalavan, the Leader & Founder of Dalit Panther of India today joined AIADMK to face the forthcoming assembly election. It was an unexpected move, since he was very close to Dr. Ramadoss of PMK, who is in DPA - DMK alliance. It was said that DMK didn't afford any seat / rejected his plea in joining the DPA alliance. Also, the DMK President had recently said he had no objection if the PMK chose to give some seats to the DPI from its quota, and it was expected like that.

ADMK made an official announcement about the electoral alliance after DPI General Secretary Thol Thirumavalavan called on ADMK Supremo and Chief Minister J Jayalalitha at her Poes Garden residence this morning, and he was given 9 seats in TamilNadu & Ponicherry.

But DPI, who has less than 1% vote bank in the state, and nearly 10 - 20 % in areas like Chidambaram, Cuddalore, Dharmapuri etc., faced the General Election 2004 with Janata Dal - United. In Chidambaram Parliamentary constituency Thirumavalavan contested in the General Election 2004, and lost. But the best of all is : he is the person, who has got 2.6 Lac votes in 7.4 Lacs votes casted, which is very good, since he opposed both DMK lead DPA alliance & AIADMK alliance & made the BJP candidate to forfeit his deposit.

The DPI had contested on the DMK symbol in the 2001 Assembly election in 8 seats and won just 1. Thirumavalavan, who won on the DMK ticket, quit the alliance and gave up his seat in 2004. This is also being seen as one of the reasons for the DMK to turn the DPI away. But, Thirumavalavan issued several open invitations to the PMK ( Dr Ramadoss), who floated the 'Tamil Protection Movement' jointly with Mr Thirumavalavan to join him in a third front, which Ramadoss didn't accept.

As of now, DPI (Dalit Panther of India) is an unrecognized party in the state. So this is a good chance for DPI / Thirumavalavan to get RECOGNIZED.