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1 week ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | R.K. Radhakrishnan |Meena Kandasamy |Vaishna Roy
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin informed the Legislative Assembly on April 15 that the government was constituting a committee headed by former Supreme Court judge Kurian Joseph to protect State autonomy. The three-member committee will submit its interim report by the end of January 2026. The committee’s final report will take two years to materialise.
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1 week ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | R.K. Radhakrishnan |Meena Kandasamy |Vaishna Roy
BJP high command’s blue-eyed boy, K. Annamalai, was replaced as Tamil Nadu president on April 11, by a former All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Minister and current BJP MLA, Nainar Nagendran. While a formal announcement is yet to be done, Nainar was the only person who had filed his nomination for the post on April 11, the day set aside for filing of nominations.
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1 week ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | R.K. Radhakrishnan |Meena Kandasamy |Vaishna Roy
Senior Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) leader and Minister K. Ponmudy was sacked from his party post of deputy general secretary after his address at a meeting where he narrated a vulgar story involving sexual positions and two sects of Hinduism.
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2 weeks ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | R.K. Radhakrishnan |Meena Kandasamy |Vaishna Roy
Hours before the Chennai touch down of Union Home Minister and the BJP’s de facto boss, Amit Shah, the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) founder S. Ramadoss “demoted” his son, Anbumani, from the post of president to that of working president. He declared himself the president, under powers delegated to him as the party’s founder of the party. Long-time confidant, G.K. Mani, continues as honorary president.
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2 weeks ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | R.K. Radhakrishnan |Divya Gandhi |Vaishna Roy
There is exactly a year to go before the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election is held, but unusually, there is talk of alliances and strategies, meetings between leaders and political posturing—indicating that even one year may be too short a time in politics. There were three major developments over the past few days: the former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) general secretary, Edappadi K.
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3 weeks ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | R.K. Radhakrishnan |Divya Gandhi |Vaishna Roy
The BJP and the Congress have taken distinct approaches to the contentious issue of the delimitation of Lok Sabha seats, even as the Tamil Nadu government has raised the ante sharply, with Chief Minister M.K. Stalin drawing other opposition-ruled States as well into the debate. While the BJP’s Tamil Nadu unit president dismissed the controversy as “mere drama”, the party’s leaders keep asserting that southern States will not lose parliamentary seats in the event of a delimitation exercise.
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3 weeks ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | R.K. Radhakrishnan |Divya Gandhi |Vaishna Roy
With Prime Minister Narendra Modi heading to Sri Lanka on April 4 for a three-day visit, the fate of the Adani Group’s proposed $442-million wind power project in that country will be the cynosure of all eyes. Modi’s first visit to Sri Lanka after the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)-led coalition assumed office will seek to reset ties with the island nation. Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake made it a point to mention the deal struck with Adani Green Energy Ltd.
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1 month ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | R.K. Radhakrishnan |Vaishna Roy
It is an open secret that the BJP-led Central government has weaponised investigations into excise policies in opposition-ruled States. In what has now become a familiar pattern, it deploys the Enforcement Directorate (ED), which in recent times has acquired a reputation for high-handedness, along with the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), to carry out these investigations and secure a few high-profile arrests—just enough to sow doubt in the public mind and set the narrative in motion.
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1 month ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | R.K. Radhakrishnan |Vaishna Roy
Leading politicians from seven States took part in a Joint Action Committee (JAC) meeting in Chennai, Tamil Nadu on March 22, demanding fair delimitation of Lok Sabha constituencies when it is taken up. This exercise should not punish States which had achieved their population control goals, the leaders said.
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1 month ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | R.K. Radhakrishnan |Vaishna Roy
With southern States and those north of the Hindi belt fearing a sharp reduction in their political influence due to delimitation, the first meeting of the Joint Action Committee (JAC) on redrawing Lok Sabha boundaries will focus on ensuring a fair process. The meeting is set to take place in Chennai on March 22.
