Tamil Nadu Assembly election News

DMK announced list of cabinet ministers MK Stalin’s cabinet will have 33 ministers His swearing-in will be held at 9 am on Friday

Stalin to take oath as Tamil Nadu CM The swearing-in ceremony will be held on May 7 DMK won 133 seats on its own in the 234-member assembly

Vote counting to begin at 8 am today Stringent COVID safety protocols put in place

Zee News Maha Exit Polls begins at 7 pm Elections to five assemblies concluded Counting of votes will take place on May 2

Among other poll promises there is iPhone for all, a three-storey house with swimming pool, car worth Rs 20 lakhs, small-size helicopter for every home. Saravanan's poster with the list of these outrageous promises has become the talk of the town.

This comes at a time when the state had been witnessing over 1,000 COVID-19 cases for three days in a row Makkal Needhi Maiam is contesting in nearly 150 seats It hopes to carve a niche for itself, by opposing both major Dravidian parties in the state

Candidates got creative with their campaigns to garner media attention One candidate carried a watermelon to file his nomination, another paid the security deposit in coins and old rupee notes

Later on in the evening, Amit Shah will hold a roadshow in Kharagpur at 5:15 pm.

In recent years, several popular actors have joined the saffron party in Tamil Nadu Gautami, Kushboo Sundar, Radha Ravi, Namitha, Gangai Amaren, S Ve Shekhar are among the names from the cine industry A few months back, producer and actor Ramkumar, son of the late Sivaji Ganesan, too had joined the party

AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi stated that his party would contest three seats-- Vaniyambadi, Krishnagiri and Sankarapuram -- in the polls as part of the alliance. Owaisi said the alliance partners would jointly campaign and he would attend a public meeting of the alliance to be held at the YMCA grounds in Chennai on March 12. The AIMIM chief said that the coalition led by Dhinakaran's AMMK would go to the people as a third alternative, adding that the electorate of Tamil Nadu would bless the partners of the AMMK-led alliance.

COVID-19 infected voters would be Given personal protective equipment (PPE) kits On the day of polling, every voter would be given hand gloves before voting For voters aged 80-plus, COVID-19 affected people and persons with a disability, the option of the postal ballot is available.

The Election Commission of India in a press conference on Friday announced the polling dates for Tamil Nadu Assembly which will take place in one phase on April 6. Polls for 234 seats in Tamil Nadu will be a contest between the alliances of Congress-DMK and BJP-AIADMK.

The Election Commission of India (ECI) chaired by Chief Election Commissioner in a press conference on Friday (February 26 ) announced polling dates for assembly elections to West Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Kerala - and the Union Territory of Puducherry.

The Election Commission of India (ECI) will announce the dates for the assembly elections in four states, including West Bengal, and the Union Territory of Puducherry on Friday. The poll panel will hold a press conference at 4.30 PM today during which it is expected to announce the dates for assembly elections in four states - West Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Kerala - and the Union Territory of Puducherry.

The AIAMDK reiterated Sasikala and those with her had nothing to do with the party and that it was illegal on their part to use the party flag as she travelled in a car sporting it Senior AIADMK leader and Fisheries Minister D Jayakumar took exception to Sasikala using the party flag "Sasikala and her aides have no link to AIADMK... It is illegal for anyone else (other than party functionaries) to use the flag," he told reporters

Sasikala was discharged on January 31 from Bengaluru`s Victoria hospital where she was undergoing COVID-19 treatment She was officially released from judicial custody on January 27 after completing her 4-year prison sentence in a disproportionate assets case

When speaking of the DMK, Gurumurthy took a potshot at its first family and the corruption cases against them Thugalk Editor S Gurumurthy added that they must be defeated and not allowed to grow

BJP Spokesperson Narayanan Thirupathy said his party was happy to know about Rajini’s foray into politics The party was open to alliance with like-minded parties, he added DMK MP A Raja said it was a person’s democratic right to start a party and that they would see with time

Posters have surfaced in Vellore district of Tamil Nadu urging actor Rajinikanth to take the political plunge. This comes with hardly eight months to go for the highly anticipated assembly election in Tamil Nadu. “Change in Political culture and government; Party and government are separate entities - if not now, never!” the posters carried some of Rajini’s own slogans.

KK Selvam, the sitting DMK MLA from the prestigious Thousand Lights constituency in Chennai met BJP leaders in Delhi. This comes on a day when even the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tamil Nadu unit said that he would be joining the party. However, after meeting BJP leaders in Delhi, he told reporters that he was not joining the BJP and had met them only to make certain demands related to his constituency.