Responding to the BJP's remarks describing the AIADMK as "anti-Tamil," the MMK leader said that the BJP leadership, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, were "anti-Tamil."
Seeking re-election from Kolathur in Chennai, Chief Minister M. K. Stalin on Saturday released the list of candidates for the 164 constituencies in which the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam is contesting the Assembly elections.
With nominations commencing for the April 23 Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu, Chief Minister and DMK president M. K. Stalin and Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) president and actor Vijay, who is making his electoral debut, filed their papers on Monday from Kolathur and Perambur, respectively, in Chennai.
While minor allies like the Indian Union Muslim League and the Left parties have been given preference and invited for talks, intriguingly, the ambivalent Congress has been kept waiting for its date.
The state agriculture minister presented the interim agriculture budget of Rs 47,248.24 crore for 2026-27, saying the government had arrested the decline of cultivable land.
The three-member panel will be headed by retired Justice Kurian Joseph and will also include retired IAS officer Ashok Vardhan Shetty and Mu Nagarajan.
“We are faced with the situation of the Lok Sabha constituenciesgetting reduced because of properly implementing the family planningprogramme and bringing population growth under control,” the chiefminister contended.
Armed with recent research findings, Chief Minister M K Stalin on Thursday claimed iron age had commenced from the Tamil landscape, shattering the previously conceived notions as this region had possessed the technology to segregate iron from ore in 5300 BCE itself.
The chief minister also wrote a letter to Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, urging him to withdraw the draft regulations of the UGC, 2024 and 2025.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Monday alleged the BJP-led Union government despite lacking a majority to pass the One Nation One Poll legislation, is making a brazen attempt to push the same with an ulterior motive of conducting a presidential form of government.
