Tamil Nadu Assembly polls News

Assembly elections are going to be held in Gujarat in December. Meanwhile, political parties have started preparations. After BJP, AAP, Congress, now AIMIM is also entering the fray with full force.

AIMIM President Asaduddin Owaisi has raised questions about Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat's visit to the madrasa. They have said that they go to madrassas and madrassas are demolished in Assam.

Assembly elections are going to be held in Gujarat in December. Meanwhile, political parties have started preparations. After BJP, AAP, Congress, now AIMIM is also entering the fray with full force.

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

In a first, the Election Commission on Saturday recommended cancelling polls to two Tamil Nadu Assembly seats - Aravakurichi and Thanjavur - following evidence of use of money to influence voters. 

Karunanidhi said the victory prospects for the DMK-Congress combine is bright.

Election Commission seized 3 containers with Rs 570 crore cash in Tiripur district of Tamil Nadu today. 

DMK general secretary K Anbazhagan has alleged that industrial development was relegated to the background during the five-year rule of AIADMK.

AIADMK supremo and Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Tuesday reeled out statistics to show how her announcements in the Tamil Nadu Assembly over new projects have progressed in several departments.

AIADMK supremo and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Saturday asserted her party would take "continuous steps" to attain a separate homeland for Tamils in Sri Lanka and demand that the Centre grant dual citizenship for refugees from the island nation living in the state.

The party is fighting the Tamil Nadu polls in alliance with some small outfits after almost all its allies in the Lok Sabha elections walked out.

On April 4, DMK allotted 41 seats to Congress and it was announced by them that they would soon identify their seats.

Congress senior leader Ghulam Nabi Azad met DMK president M Karunadhi at his residence in Chennai on Monday for seat sharing talks for the May 16 Tamil Nadu Assembly election.

Nearly 200 polling booths in the district have been identified as sensitive and would have additional security and other measures.

Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad will meet DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Friday to discuss seat-sharing for the upcoming Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu.

Traders in the city on Wednesday announced a shut down on March 25 protesting alleged harassment by election authorities under the guise of carrying out checks to unearth cash meant for poll purpose.

Vijaykant, the actor-turned-politician, had recently announced his party's decision to fight the May 16 state elections alone.

The election authorities in Tamil Nadu have so far seized Rs 7.40 crore in cash, in the run up to the May 16 Assembly polls and 73 cases related to alleged electoral offences were registered in the state.

Gearing up for the polls, the ruling AIADMK on Sunday interviewed the aspiring candidates for the May 16 state assembly election in the presence of party supremo and Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa.

With elections to the Tamil Nadu Assembly months away, AIADMK General Secretary and Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Monday put her party cadre in the poll mode, asking them to take a vow to ensure a massive victory for the party by highlighting her government's achievements.