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!!

Vaiko Vs SUN TV

A Month back, Vaiko join hands with ADMK to face the TamilNadu Assembly Election 2006. Before that he was in UPA which was led by DMK in Tamil Nadu. As there is only one month left for election, hot campaigning is going on in most places in TamilNadu.

M Karunanidhi & his Nephew Maran & family have many TV channels(Sun Network), Print Media & FM Radio licenses. The list of them are :

TV Networks : SunTV, KTV, Sun Music, Sun News, SuryaTV, KiranTV, GeminiTV, TejaTV, AdithyaTV,Teja News, UdayaTV, UsheTV, Udaya2 & Udaya News.

FM Radio : Suryan FM - Chennai,  Suryan FM - Coimbatore, Suryan FM - Tirunelveli  & Vishaka FM. (4) + its said that they have license to operate in 20 places.

Print Media :  Dailies :    Dinakaran & Tamizh Murasu  Other Magazines : Kungumum, Mutharam, Vannathirai, Kumguma Chimizh. And they have some more in Other languages too.

Its started like, VAIKO few weeks back commented that DMK Chief M Karunanidhi is holding more than 50% of the media in South India which is not fair etc.,
But its true. Even once I have read somewhere that they have a market share of 66% in daily TV viewers category.

Since after he left DMK Led UPA, he started commenting DMK & its President M Karunanidhi, which is normal since every political leader who quits one alliance & joins another do the same. The issue started of when he started pouring words about Karunanidhi 's TV network & the other group of Media.

Suddenly, yesterday (02 April 2006) in Sun TV News they were questioning VAIKO that why he(VAIKO)didn't try to bring to people 's notice that Sun TV group has got these things, while he was in DMK Led DPA alliance ??

Also there was a solid 5 minutes listing of all BigB s in the world media (starting from Times in US, till Zee TV in India) in the SUN TV News explaining that each of the companies have Dailies, Magazines & TV Channels, they meant like :not only SUN TV & group have a foot in all kind of News & Information Media, even others have more than what they have,  whiich is highly acceptable.

But onething they have CONCEALED in that News is none of the media group (owners / controllers) other than SUN TV & group is in Politics, raw POLITICS. Everyone must accept this, even you can't say NO to yourself!

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 :

## 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

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).

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

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