The Election Commission of India is under fire like never before.
The SIR has struck 13 crore names off draft rolls, putting the EC at the centre of intense public debate over its role in deciding who gets to vote — and who doesn’t.
HOWEVER, what nobody knew: through that same period, some of the sharpest questions were being asked from inside.
Out today, after months of work. Our #ExpressInvestigation 🧵
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Today’s @the_hindu
Thank you, @serenasundar ma’am, for highlighting the surfactant shortage and bringing this critical issue to attention.
Hope the issue is resolved soon and uninterrupted supply is ensured. 🙏🙏
@laksr_tn Congress ,vck,and all other alliance partners of dmk worked very hard and they are good parties but dmk is bad and dmk is the reason for everything.
It's a disease madam.come out of it.
@Sidprabhakar7 I just want to ask u guys why u hate dmk so much.u guys think about them day in and day out and taking it more personal and mocking them gives u guys the inner joy u wouldn't get anywhere else,is it?
@Mkstalin@udhaystalin@trbrajaa
Today’s speech should be a reminder to the DMK leadership: Tamil Nadu belongs to its people, not to any individual’s arrogance. Work harder, reconnect with the people, earn their trust and climb back to power through performance, dignity,humility
@mkstalin@Udhaystalin@TRBRajaa
A political comeback is not built on speeches or counter-attacks. It is built street by street, village by village, family by family—by earning the trust of Tamil Nadu’s people. DMK leadership, now is the time to work harder than ever.
Assembly playbook is this:
They’re well aware that crores of young Tamils are watching Assembly videos for the first time ever.
The goal of an Assembly is to keep the ruling side in check. Instead, here’s what happens:
- DMK asks a question
- People like Nirmal provoke others with unwanted statements
- The Assembly turns chaotic
- People from the DMK side throw counter-rebuttals
- Their IT wing cuts those clips and puts them on social media, portraying the DMK as the villain
- Mr. Aadhav gets up and asks members to stay quiet
- The original questions raised by the DMK/opposition parties go unanswered
The commoner takes away only the chaos created by opposition leaders. It’s nothing but a deliberate instillation of hate. Must be condemned thoroughly. ☹️
@Vasudha156 Like you are anxious for ur child's math test last week, we tamils are anxious that TNs growth is doomed coz of this announcement.only who cares about tamilnadu will feel anxious others don't care(urself) like we don't care about ur child's math test last week.
@dmuthuk I bet you this government has no alternate site.u think that parandur selection is easy? it involved a lot of discussions before finalising it between our state and centre.and fyi TN is doomed in industrial and economic indices moving forward.i hope u call out this govt then.
Hope the decision to scrap #Parandur airport project will be challenged in Court and the Government called upon to explain how they are going to identify 6000 acres of land near Chennai without any water body or any agricultural land.
Thousands of crores of public money have been spent on the project already and it should not be scrapped on the whims and fancies of one man.
One can understand if there are alternate sites already in the picture. Even then the minimum time to get the approvals and start land acquisition is not less than 3 years. After that God knows how long land acquisition will take.
Here they have no clue where that alternate location is. If they had why didn't the CM mention these in his speech today?
It will be a minimum of 10 years before the airport can be built and becomes functional and that is assuming everything happens at great speed.
Meanwhile Bangalore and Hyderabad will race ahead and maybe some other cities too.
Chennai will no longer be a metro. We will be a tier 2 city in less than a decade.
If the same attitude persists across sectors the State is doomed.
The Parandur decision is deeply upsetting.
We can all argue all we want, throw political muck around, create narratives and counter-narratives, indulge in blame games.. whatever.. but this is a decision which is anti-Tamil Nadu, anti-people, anti-development, anti-economy.
This significantly erodes the economic future of the state. There is no changing that.
Even among TVK’s supporters and proxies, I can respect those who agree that this is a bad decision but don’t want to go against CM Vijay, I understand political compulsions, at least that’s being truthful.
But if you support or justify this decision, prop up arguments to muddy the debate, you are a scoundrel.
The problem with scrapping parandur airport is ,
TN is growing ,the decision to scrap a project and to search for a alternative will take decades before we build one.
TN s growth and economy and industrial hit will be irreplaceable in due course.
Long live @CMOTamilnadu#parandur