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AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa said on Saturday
The Hindu AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa said on Saturday "the people of Tamil Nadu have reposed enormous trust and confidence in us. We will live up to those expectations." Here she is coming out after paying tributes to party founder M.G. Ramachandran at the party headquarters in Chennai. Photo: R. Ragu

A decisive vote for us: Jayalalithaa

AIADMK leader to meet Governor on Sunday, stake claim to form government »      12 comments

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In this November 2004 file photo, actor Vijaykant greets Chief Minister Jayalalithaa during a felicitation function in Chennai. The DMDK, which the actor founded in 2005, won 29 seats out of the 41 seats it contested under the Jayalalithaa-led AIADMK alliance in the just concluded Assembly polls. Photo: V. Ganesan

Massive swing in AIADMK way sealed DMK fate

The massive 10 per cent swing reflected the public fury against the DMK regime, hit by the 2G spectrum scam, power cut, skyrocketing prices and deteriorating law and order. »      12 comments

TNCC President K.V. Thangkabalu. File photo

Thangkabalu to resign as TNCC chief

Mr. Thangkabalu, facing flak from various factions in the party for the choice of some candidates, himself had lost to AIADMK’s R. Rajalakshmi in Mylapore. »

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Arrogance, corruption led to isolation in West Bengal, says Bardhan

A day after electoral debacle in West Bengal, the Communist Party of India felt that arrogance and corruption among the cadre and leaders at certain levels resulted in the Left Front becoming is... »      7 comments

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Congress yet to take a decision

Party strategists feel it makes more sense to support the government from outside »      1 comment

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Supporters of the UDF celebrate after the announcement of Assembly election results in Kochi. Photo:Vipin Chandran
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, May 13, 2011

UDF scrapes through in Kerala

In the closest electoral battle Kerala has seen in recent decades, the Congress-led United Democratic Front has scraped past the Left Democratic Front in the 2011 Assembly elections. In the... »
Supporters of Trinamool Congress celebrate outside Mamata Banerjee's Kalighat residence in Kolkata. Photo: PTI
Kolkata, May 13, 2011

Mamata appeals for discipline

Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has dedicated her party's historic victory in the West Bengal Assembly election, ending the 34-year-long Communist regime, to the people of the State... »
RESOUNDING VICTORY: AIADMK leader Jayalalithaa waves to her supporters from the balcony of her Poes Garden residence in Chennai on Friday. Photo: Vignesh Rajagopalan
Chennai, May 13, 2011

Jayalalithaa rides wave, decimates DMK-led front

Riding the crest of a silent anti-incumbency wave in the April 13 Assembly elections, the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam on Friday stormed back to power in Tamil Nadu, paving the w... »
Trinamool Congress supporters in Kolkata are in a jubiliant mood after witnessing the history of the end of Communist era in West Bengal on Friday. The landslide victory of All India Trinamool Congress in the 15th Assembly Election was much awaited result for the maverick leader Mamata Banerjee. Photo: Arunangsu Roy Chowdhury
Kolkata, May 13, 2011

Mamata storms Left bastion

The Trinamool Congress-Congress alliance on Friday swept the West Bengal Assembly polls with more than a two-thirds majority, ending 34 years of Left Front rule. Even as results wer... »
NEW DELHI, May 13, 2011

All set for counting of votes today

Elaborate arrangements made for the process which will decide the fate of 6,679 candidates »
Kolkata, May 13, 2011

Hasina congratulates Mamata

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today congratulated Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee for her party’s win in the West Bengal Assembly polls.“Sheikh Hasinaji cal... »
A polling official shows an Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) before the start of counting of votes at Cotton College in Guwahati on Friday. Photo: Ritu Raj Konwar
Guwahati, May 13, 2011

Alliance with BPF will continue: Gogoi

The ruling Congress has performed a hat-trick in Assam. It won the Assembly election by a landslide. In the results, which were declared on Friday, it secured an absolute majority. The rulin... »
AIADMK general secretary showing the victory sign, after the party's landslide win in the Tamil Nadu Assembly polls, at her Poes Garden residence on Friday. Photo: V. Ganesan
Chennai, May 13, 2011

AIADMK set to storm to power in Tamil Nadu on its own

The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam led by Jayalalithaa is making a triumphant return to power, by establishing lead in 152 constituencies. Its allies are ahead of other cand... »
Thiruvananthapuram, May 13, 2011

Neck and neck race in Kerala

It is a neck and neck race in Kerala as counting began in 64 counting centres across the State on Friday morning. The State is heading for a close finish in the Assembly elections with the O... »
Rehearsal for counting of votes on Friday held at a counting centre in Thiruvananthapuram on Wednesday. Photo: Information and Public Relations Department, Kerala Government.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, May 12, 2011

Early results in Kerala expected by 11 am on Friday

Anxiety among the political leaders in Kerala has increased with exit-polls results reflecting an uncertain outcome in the State Assembly elections, and the counting of votes less than 24 ho... »
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After 34 years in power, the Left has had to give way to the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal. Mamata Banerjee's call for 'Paribortan', or change, was answered leading Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee to resign as Chief Minister.
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Contrary to poll surveys, which predicted a neck-and-neck race, the AIADMK stormed back to power by winning convincingly -- 150 seats -- on its own to form the next government in Tamil Nadu, after dealing a crushing blow to the ruling DMK.
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The United Democratic Front (UDF) managed to get a wafer-thin majority over the Left Democratic Front (LDF) in Kerala in a neck and neck battle, on Friday.
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