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Chennai's residents are not dodging a tax. They are reading the bill against the street outside, flooded, unconnected and unrepaired, and asking the oldest question in municipal politics: what, exactly, was paid for?
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Madurai's conservancy strike is not a dispute about one contractor. It is about a city that outsourced its dirtiest work and then refused to sign its own assurance. Dignity begins with staffing and pay.
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Conservancy workers in Madurai began an indefinite strike on Monday demanding an end to outsourced garbage work, leaving waste uncleared across the city's 100 wards as the union rejected another round of assurances.
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When homes go dark and factories stall, a minister's weather report is not governance. Electricity is a promise the state makes every evening.
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Unscheduled outages and low voltage have pushed residents and small industries onto the streets, and the opposition says the TVK government is blaming the wind instead of fixing the grid.
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The Bengaluru warehouse row is not a language misunderstanding. It is a test of self-respect at work: no wage should require a worker to surrender their mother tongue to keep a job.
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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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AIADMK leader Edappadi K. Palaniswami accused the TVK government of rising corruption and failed paddy procurement in Thanjavur and Cuddalore, leaving delta farmers exposed.
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Farmer representatives are right to insist that bilateral talks with Karnataka must not bypass the Supreme Court framework. A river governed by a judgment cannot be renegotiated by press release.
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Farmers led by P. Ayyakannu buried themselves in sand on the Cauvery bank at Tiruchirappalli, demanding Karnataka release Tamil Nadu's share and accusing the TVK government of neglecting the Kuruvai crop.
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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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Opinion: Vetri 150 promised 150 days of rural work and has delivered ten in 91 days. Periyar's test was self-respect, and a welfare promise, as the Dravidian tradition held, is a debt.
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Ninety-one days after the Vetri 150 promise of 150 days of rural work, Tamil Nadu workers average ten days, with worksites cut from 50 hands to 20 and wages unpaid for weeks.
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Voting began at 7 a.m. on Tuesday in the Dharapuram and Madurantakam Assembly bypolls, with brisk turnout reported in rural booths. The contests, forced by defections, are being fought under persistent allegations of cash and gift distribution that the ruling TVK has failed to dispel.
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On Monday, Amma Unavagam workers protested in Virudhunagar: twelve to thirteen years on the job, still paid Rs 250-340 a day against the Collector's Rs 578 order from April, and the TVK's election promise of regularisation still unkept — while the CM renovates 620 canteens.
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Hundreds of Pattinapakkam fishermen marched with black flags on Oct 4 against the TVK government's Secretariat-Assembly complex plan on Foreshore Estate land acquired in 1957 for their rehabilitation, they say. The state calls it a DPR-stage proposal; the fishers call it a land grab.
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From the nurses invited for talks and then arrested to the fishers facing barricades over a ₹1,200-crore palace: the TVK government answers every protest with police and every question with silence. Periyar and Anna would recognise the disease.
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Around 4,000 nurses of the TN Intermediate Health Workers' Association began a hunger strike in Chennai on October 5, demanding ₹45,000 monthly salary, equal pay and permanent jobs. Their counsel alleges five leaders invited to the Secretariat for talks were arrested instead.
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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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AMMK chief TTV Dhinakaran called the TVK government 'a curse for Tamil Nadu', like the El Nino phenomenon. Campaigning in Dharapuram, he alleged CM Vijay lured 25 AIADMK MLAs with promises, held him responsible for the by-elections, and demanded ECI action against MLAs who resign after election.
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Opinion: five months after the general election, two MLAs resigned, joined the ruling TVK, and were renominated on its whistle symbol. Dhinakaran wants the ECI to punish serial resigners — right about the symptom. The disease: a seat treated as private property — traded and re-auctioned at will.
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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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Thousands of intermediate health workers ended their hunger strike near Chennai's Rajarathinam Stadium after five leaders, invited into the Tamil Nadu Secretariat for talks, were detained. The site suffered a power cut before overnight detentions.
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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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First the sanitation workers, then the nurses: the TVK government's answer to Tamil Nadu's striking workers has been the police van. A party that promised change is governing with the oldest trick in the book, and the workers it arrests will remember.
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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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The Madurantakam and Dharapuram bypolls exist for one reason: two legislators resigned, crossed to the ruling party, and were renominated from the seats they vacated. Defection is no longer a scandal in Tamil Nadu politics. It is a business model.
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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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CITU-affiliated Amma Unavagam workers staged a demonstration in Virudhunagar on Monday, demanding regularisation after 12-13 years on daily wages of Rs 250-340, with the collector-fixed Rs 578 wage unpaid six months after it was ordered.
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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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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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