The PMK has now lent its voice to the protests against the mining of atomic minerals in Kanyakumari.
Claiming that the All India Anna Dravida Munnettra Kazhagam, headed by Jayalalithaa, would be isolated in the electoral arena, he said her hopes of weaning away the PMK to its fold would not succeed.
Union Health Minister Dr Anbumani Ramadoss on Monday charged the Delhi media with bias against him as he was from the ranks of most backward classes.
Ramadoss stressed the need for raising the level of bio-security in poultry holdings by commitment and financial investments from the government, private sector and commercial firms.
The Union Health Ministry will take up initiatives to check occupational health hazards faced by employees in the IT and ITES sector.
Bharatiya Janata Party has sought the resignation of Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss in the wake of a Supreme Court judgment striking down the law that enabled All India Institute of Medical Sciences director P Venugopal's removal from office. BJP Vice President Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said, "It is a judicial treatment for the unhealthy attitude of the Health Minister."
Veerasamy's angry outbursts was in connection with his charge that the PMK leader had built a college in farm lands in Villupuram district and Dr Ramadoss launching a mud slinging campaign against him, while stoutly denying the allegations against him.
The worst affected areas from dengue in Delhi are central zone, Shahdara (in the north) and Najafgarh, which have reported 115, 79 and 72 cases respectively.
Eighty one people have died due to chickungunya in the state.
The Tamil Protection Movement was floated, among others, by the PMK and the Dalit Panthers of India. It aims at making people in Tamil Nadu use Tamil in all walks of life.
With the DMK formalising its alliance with the Congress and the Indian Union Muslim League, and the AIADMK not allowing the BJP anywhere near it, if the DMDK too goes with the DMK then the only option left for the BJP is to explore going with the PMK. In that case it has to endorse Dr Ramadoss as its chief minister candidate, says R Ramasubramanian.
'With its vote bank is intact, the PMK, though a smaller party of Vanniars, was able to twist around major parties like the DMK and AIADMK, negotiating with both before settling for Chief Minister Edapadi K Palaniswami's side.' 'There is a lesson in it for regional parties in other states as well, on how to dominate the national parties with a committed vote share of just 7 to 8 per cent,' says R Rajagopalan.
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With Tamil Nadu's economy getting increasingly debt-ridden with each passing budget, any concession to the Centre on the tax front, the state government has argued, would only help forgotten 'minor parties' to start hoping of a revival, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
Modi's NDA is good enough to give a psychological boost to the once 'untouchable' BJP and Modi but if the NDA doesn't get a majority on its own, then walking the last mile will be the greatest challenge of this election for Modi, says Sheela Bhatt/Rediff.com
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