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A constituency-by-constituency comparison of the SIR voter-roll purge with the 2026 results shows the TVK's victory rising in near-perfect step with the deletions: the deeper the cuts, the bigger its wins, including all ten seats where over 80,000 names vanished.
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Chennai mid-level nurses suspended their hunger strike after talks with the Health Secretary, but warned of a statewide agitation from November 3 if pay, permanency and pending dues are not settled.
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Releasing nurses at night ends a police day, not a dispute. Until the TVK government answers regularisation and equal pay in writing, every protest it disperses will return larger.
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DMK MP Kanimozhi, inspecting flyover work in Thoothukudi on October 6, accused the TVK government of breaking pre-poll promises to nurses, farmers and workers, citing the night release of arrested nurses and unmet demands.
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The Hindu reported that CMCH changed its medicine covers after Hindi instructions sparked a row, naming DMK leader T. R. B. Raja among critics. It follows the Thoothukudi signboard suspensions and tests the TVK government's two-language pledge.
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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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Justice Govindarajan Thilakavadi of the Madras High Court on October 5 allowed the DMK's plea to sue TVK ministers Aadhav Arjuna and CTR Nirmal Kumar, plus the TVK IT wing, Google, Meta and X, over allegedly defamatory statements linking the party to the POCSO case against granite baron Veeramani.
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As polling continued in Dharapuram and Madurantakam on Tuesday, TVK candidate P Sathyabama alleged a video about her had been distorted, while AIADMK's Banumathi accused the ruling camp of distributing money and gifts and cited a viral video claiming Rs 35 crore was spent in the seat.
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A state highways signboard near Sathankulam carried place names in Tamil, Hindi and English, in violation of Tamil Nadu's two-language policy. Two engineers were suspended. The episode says less about the painters and more about a ruling party with no ideological roots to anchor it.
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Polling is underway in the Madurantakam and Dharapuram bypolls, the first electoral test for the TVK government since April 23. Brisk early voting was reported as defector MLAs Maragatham Kumaravel and P Sathyabama gamble voters will forgive the horse-trading that triggered the contests.
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Five months after C. Joseph Vijay took office, analysts say he has mastered welfare branding but stumbles on governance basics: a withdrawn RTI exemption, power cuts embarrassing his own ministers, rookie ministers courting controversy, and law and order as the biggest test.
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Polling reached 35.55% in Madurantakam and 37.28% in Dharapuram by 11 am, but a halted booth in Dharapuram and EVM glitches in Madurantakam disrupted the TVK government's first electoral test, with counting on October 9.
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Nurses on a hunger strike near Chennai's Rajarathinam Stadium for job security, equal pay and permanent employment were arrested overnight on Oct 5 after power was cut at the protest site. Stalin accused the TVK government of backstabbing them; EPS condemned the 'police brutality'.
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Voters in Madurantakam and Dharapuram cast ballots on Tuesday in bypolls doubling as the first electoral test of Vijay's TVK government. The contests, forced by two MLA defections, were fought amid horse-trading charges and a heavy watch on cash. Counting on October 9.
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OPINION: When 41 people died in Karur, a probe team was formed within hours, before the court order even arrived. A month after the High Court ordered an SIT into the kidney racket, it has not begun. Justice is being rationed by who the victims are.
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AIADMK's Edappadi Palaniswami on Monday accused the state government of 'blatant double standards', lightning speed on the Karur stampede probe, but no start a month after the court ordered an SIT into Namakkal's kidney racket. Health Minister Ma Subramanian denies inaction.
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The INDIA bloc's march to the Election Commission is not theatre but a symptom: when a constitutional umpire cannot answer who changed Form 6, citizens stop trusting the scoreboard. Institutions rot when accountability dies, and the street becomes the last court.
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All INDIA bloc MPs marched to the Election Commission's Delhi headquarters on October 6, demanding CEC Gyanesh Kumar's removal over alleged voter-list manipulation. The Congress said it would reach out to the DMK and AAP to join; district-level marches continue till October 8.
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The anti-corruption agency has ordered a detailed inquiry following an ED complaint alleging serious irregularities in river-sand mining across Tamil Nadu, a probe rooted in the central agency's long-running money-laundering investigation.
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Stalin called Vijay a 'Reels CM' who treats governance like a shooting spot. The mockery is cheap — but the charge beneath it has receipts: three months of falling GST revenue, rising prices, and a four-month-old government whose first instinct was to shield police files from RTI.
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Polling is under way in six Assembly seats across Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Assam and Puducherry. In Madurantakam and Dharapuram it is a prestige battle for Vijay's four-month-old TVK — with Stalin's 'Reels CM' jibe and TTV Dhinakaran's 'curse' charge setting the tone. Counting on October 9.
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Chennai police have arrested three of R. Veeramani's drivers on abetment charges and searched their residences, days after the granite baron was detained under the Goondas Act. Five cases now stand against the 84-year-old — including abetment of a minor's 2004 suicide.
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On bypoll eve, Vijay warned the DMK not to 'attack' women in his circle, while DMK ministers face a Rs 1-crore defamation suit. Both camps have discovered women's dignity — as a campaign weapon. Periyar would have asked a harder question: where were you when the cameras were off?
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Madurantakam and Dharapuram vote today because two MLAs resigned within weeks of being elected and defected to the ruling party. The taxpayer funds the bypoll, the voter is asked to rubber-stamp the deal, and democracy is told to treat it as normal.
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Voters in Madurantakam (Chengalpattu) and Dharapuram (Tiruppur) cast ballots today, 7 AM to 6 PM, in the first bypolls since TVK took power four months ago. Heavy security is in place, a public holiday declared, and Chief Minister Vijay has staked his prestige on both seats.
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Tiruppur district police booked Tamil Nadu Leader of the Opposition Udhayanidhi Stalin for allegedly making a minor boy climb onto a campaign van and speak at a Dharapuram bypoll meeting, violating ECI guidelines against involving children in campaigns.
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The Congress will invite the DMK and AAP to an INDIA bloc rally on November 1 and run a nationwide 'Vote bachao, desh bachao' campaign from October 10 to 20 — with village-level chaupals to follow — to help voters deleted during the SIR get back on the electoral rolls.
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On the eve of polling, DMK leader Senthil Balaji posted photographs alleging that TVK workers are distributing sarees and lamps and serving biryani to Dharapuram voters. CPI and CPI(M) have separately raised cash-for-vote charges against the ruling TVK ahead of the October 6 bypolls.
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M.K. Stalin has accused the TVK government of testing the waters on Hindi imposition after the Governor's address outlined CM Vijay's language and education policy. 'The two-language policy is Tamil Nadu's lifeline. Do not play with it,' he said.
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Campaigning has ended in Madurantakam and Dharapuram. Tomorrow, two constituencies vote in the first electoral test of Vijay's TVK government — a test the ruling party manufactured by luring away two elected MLAs. This is not just about who wins. It is about whether those in power will finally learn the oldest lesson in democracy: the people are the masters, not the rulers.
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Tiruppur police have registered a case against Tamil Nadu Opposition leader Udhayanidhi Stalin for allegedly making a minor boy address a campaign meeting in Dharapuram, a day before the October 6 bypoll. Sections 123(1) of the RP Act and 83 of the JJ Act were invoked, PTI reports.
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On the eve of the October 6 Madurantakam bypoll, TVK candidate K. Maragatham Kumaravel's own sworn affidavits do not agree with each other. The incomes she and her husband declared for the same financial years in April 2026 and September 2026 differ by ₹1.4 crore — figures The Justice has independently verified from the public affidavit records. Furnishing false information in an election affidavit is punishable under Section 125A of the Representation of the People Act.
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A viral Tamil infographic showing Tamil Nadu's GST collections falling year-on-year for three straight months — July down ₹122 crore, August down ₹140 crore, September down ₹482 crore — matches official data, and it has triggered alarm. Former DMK ministers T.R.B. Rajaa and Thangam Thennarasu say the TVK government has no answer for why the state's revenue is shrinking while the rest of India grows.
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Justice K. Govindarajan Thilakavadi on Monday allowed the DMK's application seeking leave to sue Ministers Aadhav Arjuna and CTR Nirmal Kumar for alleged defamatory remarks in the POCSO case against granite baron R. Veeramani. The suit also names the TVK IT wing and Google, Meta and X.
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Campaigning ended on Sunday for Tuesday's by-elections in Madurantakam and Dharapuram, TVK's first electoral test three months into its rule. Forty-nine candidates are in the fray as the defectors who forced the polls recontest on TVK tickets. Polling is on October 6, counting on October 9.
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Two Tamil Nadu highways engineers were suspended after a newly installed signboard on State Highway-93 near Thoothukudi carried place names in Hindi, in violation of the state's two-language policy. The action followed public criticism from DMK president M.K. Stalin, who accused the TVK government of softening on Hindi imposition; the board was replaced with a Tamil-English one within a day.
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Congress MP Karti Chidambaram said Hindi on highway signboards cannot be treated as imposition, even as the TVK government suspended two engineers over a Hindi signboard on SH-93 in Thoothukudi — and M.K. Stalin accused the government of testing the waters before U-turning.
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