TamilNadu Assembly Election 2011 Polling Date Announced

Battle for Tamil Nadu: Just How Formidable is the DMK Alliance?

In the 2004 General Elections, an alliance led by the DMK clean swept the state despite being decimated by the AIDMK in the Assembly polls four years earlier. The DMK alliance then included the re-united Congress (after the merger of Tamil Manila Congress with its parent body); the two Communist parties; the PMK and the MDMK. Because the decimation of the opposition was as comprehensive as it could be as reflected in the 40-0 result, 2004 is widely considered by political pundits as the benchmark for the ultimate formidability of the DMK alliance.

In the next General Election in 2009, the DMK alliance lost a good chunk of their formidability with MDMK, PMK, CPI and CPM bolting from its stables to those of AIDMK. Despite this, the DMK alliance still managed to stun pundits by running away with 70% of the seats. Both alliances have expanded their constituent party numbers since 2009 - the number of parties within the AIDMK going up from 5 to 14 and the DMK from 3 to 7.

So how formidable is the present DMK alliance viz-a-viz 2009 and in relation to their rival AIDMK? This is the first post of a series of backgrounder to the Tamil Nadu Assembly Elections

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2011 தேர்தலில் யார் உறுதியாக ஜெயிப்பார்கள் என்பதை படித்து விட்டீர்களா? படிக்கவில்லை என்றால் இங்க www.saamiyaar.blogspot.com/2011/03/blog-post_15.htmlகொஞ்சம் வந்துட்டு போங்க. அன்புடன் அழைக்கிறேன். ஒரு பார்வை பாத்துட்டு போங்களேன். அட வாங்க சார். நன்றி சார் (நீங்க வர போகிறதற்கு )

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