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  • Tamil Nadu temples | Stalin’s Hindu push

    The DMK authorities is sprucing up the state’s shrines and their administration—and subtly altering its private image inside the course of

    ISSUE DATE: May 29, 2023 | UPDATED: May 19, 2023 15:37 IST

    SCAFFOLDED: Maintenance work on the Arulmigu Varageeswaran temple in Kancheepuram, TN.

    T he M.Okay. Stalin-led Dravida Munn­etra Kazhagam (DMK) authorities is striving to offer the state’s temples a makeover and, inside the low cost, give itself one too. An huge renovation plan is afoot for Hindu shrines, along with the retrieval of encroached land. The state’s Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR&CE) division, which oversees temple administration in Tamil Nadu, has been issuing eviction notices thick and fast. Budgetary allocations for conservation and creating pilgrim services have gone up manifold before now two years.

    Published By:

    Shyam Balasubramanian

    Published On:

    May 19, 2023

  • Corralling troops for an election | Nitish performs unifier

    The Bihar chief minister has set himself the responsibility of aligning opposition occasions in the direction of the BJP for the 2024 frequent election. Not solely does it indicate bringing quite a few regional forces collectively, however as well as getting the Congress to scale down its ambitions wherever wished

    ISSUE DATE: May 1, 2023 | UPDATED: Apr 21, 2023 18:21 IST

    Nitish Kumar addresses mediapersons in New Delhi on April 12 as Tejashwi Yadav, Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi look on. (Photo: ANI)

    Ask Nitish Kumar, the chief minister of Bihar and Janata Dal (United) supremo, how loads sugar he wants in his cup of tea, and he’ll most likely inform you, solely 1 / 4 spoon, not a pinch further. Any further, he thinks, will injury his cuppa. That an identical consideration to aspect and the willingness to achieve a perfect stability would possibly perhaps turn into helpful as, a yr ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha election, he items out to restore a novel, loads bigger, boiling pot: of an implosive, perpetually scorching nationwide opposition.

    Published By:

    Arindam Mukherjee

    Published On:

    Apr 21, 2023

  • MK Stalin takes oath as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister

    Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) chief M Okay Stalin was sworn in as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister on Friday at Raj Bhavan right here.

    He was administered the oath by Governor Banwarilal Purohit

    Along with Stalin 33 different ministers from his get together additionally took the oath.

    The names embrace 19 former ministers and 15 new faces. There are two girls among the many newly sworn-in ministers.

    Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit on Thursday authorized the suggestions made by Stalin relating to MLAs to be appointed ministers and their portfolios.

    Stalin’s son Udhayanidhi doesn’t determine within the checklist of ministers. DMK had fought the elections with its allies and bought an absolute majority by itself.

    Stalin will maintain a number of portfolios together with Home, General Administration, Special Initiatives, Special Programme Implementation and Welfare of Differently-Abled Persons.

    Medical and Family Welfare portfolio has been assigned to former Chennai Mayor Ma Subramanian and Water Resources has been given to DMK common secretary S Duraimurugan. Udhayanidhi’s shut assist Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi has been given cost of School Education division.

    S Raghupathy will deal with the regulation division, R Sakkarapani shall be minister for Food and Civil provides, T Mano Thangaraj of Information Technology and Palanivel Thiagarajan of Finance and Human Resources.

    The ministers embrace Okay N Nehru (Minister for Municipal Administration), I Periasamy (Minister for Cooperation), Okay Ponmudi (Minister for Higher Education), EV Velu (Minister for Public Works), MRK Panneerselvam(Minister for Agriculture and Farmer’s Welfare), KKSSR Ramachandran (Minister for Revenue and Disaster Management), Thangam Thennarasu (Minister for Industries), S Muthusamy (Minister for Housing and Urban Development), and Okay R Periakaruppan (Minister for Rural Development) and T M Anbarasan (Minister for Rural Industries).

    The checklist additionally contains MP Saminathan (Minister for Information and Publicity), P Geetha Jeevan (Minister for Social Welfare and Women Empowerment), Anitha S Radhakrishnan (Minister for Fisheries, Fishermen Welfare and Animal Husbandry), SR Rajakannappan (Minister for Transport), Okay Ramchandran (Minister for Forests), V Senthilbalaji (Minister for Electricity, Prohibition and Excise), R Gandhi (Minister for Handlooms and Textiles), P Moorthy (Minister for Commercial Taxes and Registration), and SS Sivasankar (Minister for Backward Classes Welfare).

    It has PK Sekarbabu (Minister for Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments), SM Nasar (Minister for Milk and Dairy Development), Ginjee KS Masthan ( Minister for Minorities Welfare and Non-Resident Tamils welfare), Siva V Meyyanathan (Minister for Environment-Climate Change and Youth Welfare and Sports Development), C V Ganesan (Minister for Labour Welfare and Skill Development), M Mathiventhan (Minister for Tourism), and N Kayalvizhi Selvaraj (Minister for Adi Dravidar Welfare).

  • Rajinikanth, Kamal Haasan in style movie stars, however ‘marginal players’ in politics: Aiyar

    Describing Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan as “marginal political players”, senior Congress chief Mani Shankar Aiyar has stated they continue to be highly regarded movie stars however are unable to draw public opinion to their viewpoint in political phrases.
    Aiyar, who has been named in three key panels arrange by the Congress for Tamil Nadu polls, asserted that celebrity Rajinikanth’s resolution that he is not going to enter electoral politics is not going to make a tinker’s distinction because the state readies for the meeting polls.

    “When he (Rajinikanth) said he was going to come into politics, I said it is not going to make a tinker’s difference, now that he has decided not to come into politics, I repeat what I said, it is not going to make a tinker’s difference,” Aiyar advised PTI in an interview.
    “Kamal Haasan and Rajinikanth are not anything but marginal political players,” the previous Union minister stated.
    It was completely different within the previous days when individuals like M G Ramachandran (MGR), Sivaji Ganesan and even Jayalalithaa have been concerned in movies that carried a revolutionary social message, he stated.

    Noting that former Tamil Nadu Chief Ministers M Karunanidhi and C N Annadurai have been additionally deeply concerned in cinema, he stated the highly effective scripts written by Annadurai and very highly effective dialogues by Karunanidhi that have been delivered magnificently by MGR resulted in movies in Tamil cinema having within the Nineteen Fifties the identical position as social media is immediately having in figuring out the politics of northern India.
    “Since these two (Rajinikanth and Haasan) have never used cinema as a medium for a political message, they remain what they are — very very popular film stars, but not people who attract public opinion to their point of view in political terms,” Aiyar stated.
    He argued that there have been no two actors extra in style on the Hindi silver display screen than Amitabh Bachchan and Rajesh Khanna, however “what flops they were in politics”.
    The identical factor applies within the South, he added.
    Making a U-turn, celebrity Rajinikanth final month introduced he is not going to enter politics in view of his frail well being, placing an finish to his long-nurtured plans and describing his latest hospitalisation as God’s warning.

    “Only I know the pain behind making this announcement,” the 70 year-old actor had stated, simply days earlier than he was to spell out the contours of his get together based mostly on religious politics aimed toward bringing a complete change within the Dravidian heartland Tamil Nadu within the 2021 meeting elections.

    Haasan had launched Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) in February 2018 and the get together had confronted the 2019 Lok Sabha elections however couldn’t win a single seat.

    Haasan, by means of his ongoing ballot marketing campaign, has latched on to the welfare legacy of MGR and has been attacking each the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) over alleged corruption.