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Madurantakam recorded 83.86% polling and Dharapuram 78.53% by 5.30 pm in Tuesday's by-elections, the first electoral test for the TVK government. Counting is on October 9.
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DMK president M.K. Stalin on Saturday alleged that a 'corporate mafia government' was ruling Tamil Nadu, warning that the TVK's 'real face' would soon be exposed — including, he claimed, a 'secret alliance' with the BJP at the Centre, days before the October 6 bypolls.
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On the eve of the October 6 Dharapuram bypoll, farmers accuse the TVK government of hollowing out its flagship promise of a full crop-loan waiver — replacing it with shifting slabs, a Rs 75,000 cap, and exclusions for March loans, pensioners and dairy farmers. Officials did not respond to questions.
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An MLA elected on the AIADMK's ticket in April resigned within weeks and recontests on the ruling TVK's ticket in October. Madurantakam's bypoll is not an election — it is a receipt for a transaction. Mandates treated as merchandise assault the voter's dignity.
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Three days before polling, Madurantakam (SC) is a bypoll manufactured in a party office. K. Maragatham Kumaravel won on an AIADMK ticket in April 2026, resigned weeks later, joined the ruling TVK — and now asks voters to bless the defection that forced this election. Polling Oct 6.
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TVK will petition the Election Commission over remarks allegedly made by DMK president M.K. Stalin and Udhayanidhi Stalin about TVK candidate Sathyabama in the Dharapuram bypoll campaign, minister R. Nirmal Kumar announced on October 3. The exact words remain unreleased.
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A 22-candidate byelection in a Scheduled Caste constituency has shrunk to a shouting match over alleged nicknames and a 'force of evil' jibe. The water, wages and dignity of Dharapuram's people are nowhere in the debate — and the bypoll exists only because MLAs defected for the ruling party.
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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Vijay on Saturday branded the DMK 'a force of evil' over M.K. Stalin's alleged remarks about TVK's Dharapuram bypoll candidate Sathyabama, escalating a row already headed for the EC. The bypoll campaign ends Sunday; polling is on October 6.
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Campaigning in Dharapuram for the October 6 bypoll, DMK president M.K. Stalin branded Chief Minister Vijay a 'Reels CM', accused the TVK of being a branch of the BJP, and urged voters to give a 'fitting reply' to what he called an arrogant government.
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TVK minister C.T.R. Nirmal Kumar announced on Saturday that the party will lodge a formal complaint with the Election Commission over alleged body-shaming remarks by M.K. Stalin about its Dharapuram candidate P. Sathyabama, escalating the bypoll row days before polling.
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TVK ministers K.A. Sengottaiyan and Arun Raj have demanded a public apology from DMK president M.K. Stalin over remarks he allegedly made about the party's Dharapuram candidate Sathyabama during Friday's bypoll rally. The exact wording is disputed and no transcript has been released.
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Dharapuram and Madurantakam vote on October 6 in bypolls that exist for one reason: three AIADMK MLAs resigned and joined the ruling TVK. When a ruling party can purchase the winners instead of winning seats, the election becomes a receipt.
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Campaigning in Dharapuram for the DMK's S. Suganya, M.K. Stalin branded Chief Minister Vijay the 'Reels' CM, called him a 'villain to democracy', and accused the TVK of being a BJP offshoot — sharpening the October 6 bypoll into a direct duel.
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Escalating the Dharapuram row, TVK minister C.T.R. Nirmal Kumar said the party will complain to the Election Commission about M.K. Stalin's alleged remarks about its candidate P. Sathyabama, as the bypoll campaign enters its final stretch. No transcript exists; the DMK has not responded.
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CM C. Joseph Vijay lands in Coimbatore on Sunday and drives to Dharapuram for another round of bypoll campaigning, with roughly 2,000 police deployed along his route through crowded neighbourhoods. On a holiday, with traffic set to crawl: who does the bandobast serve — the city, or the campaign?
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TVK's alliance partners held a joint rally in Madurantakam on October 2 that Chief Minister Vijay skipped, after his solo campaign left them seething. Days before the October 6 bypolls, cash-distribution charges and a divided stage have turned TVK's first electoral test into a credibility trial.
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Eighteen months ago Vijay promised a 'pure force' that would never buy votes. This week his own allies say his party tops the cash charts in two bypolls. The distance between the promise and the practice is the story of the TVK government.
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CPI(M) state secretary P. Shanmugam on Thursday accused the ruling TVK of distributing the most cash among all parties in the Madurantakam and Dharapuram bypolls and demanded Election Commission action. The charge cuts directly against Vijay's April promise that his party was a 'pure force' that would never buy votes.
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Two MLAs won in April, quit within a month, joined the ruling TVK and are now asking the same voters for the same seats. Madurantakam and Dharapuram are not choosing representatives — they are being asked to rubber-stamp a transaction.
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Campaigning for DMK candidate S. Suganya in Dharapuram on Friday, M.K. Stalin branded C. Joseph Vijay a 'Reels CM', attacked rising prices, a three-month slide in GST revenue and failures on power, law and order and industry — and asked voters to deliver a 'fitting reply' on October 6.
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DMK president M.K. Stalin has accused the 'minority' TVK government of forcing the October 6 byelections for Chief Minister Vijay's 'selfish gain', saying the 'actor Chief Minister' turned from Jananayagan hero to a villain of democracy through 'horse-trading' and the 'murder of democracy'.
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Chief Minister Vijay rolled through Madurantakam in a 45-km roadshow for the October 6 byelection — driving a tractor and stopping for tea — as questions linger over the defections that forced the poll and the cash-for-votes shadow over his government.
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On the final day of bypoll campaigning, DMK chief M. K. Stalin accused the TVK government of attempting Hindi imposition and of running a 'reels government for North Indian influencers', asking if every policy is first a test balloon and then a U-turn.
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The party elected as a 'pure force' against money politics now stands accused — by its own Left allies — of topping cash distribution in the October 6 bypolls. On Madurantakam and Dharapuram, manufactured elections, and the auction of a promise.
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CPI(M) leader P. Shanmugam says Madurantakam villagers told Left campaigners 'everyone else is distributing money while we are giving only pamphlets' — with the ruling TVK distributing the most. The AIADMK has petitioned the EC alleging cash-for-votes in the October 6 bypolls.
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With polling four days away, the ruling TVK, the DMK and the AIADMK are trading charges of horse-trading, coordinated smear campaigns and "reels" governance in two constituencies the Chief Minister's party cannot afford to lose.
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