A meeting of the leaders of the opposition coalition, the INDIA bloc, was held at Indian National Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge's residence in Delhi after the joint session of Parliament on Thursday.
As the INDIA bloc performed better than anticipated and the BJP fell short of the halfway mark of 272 seats in the Lok Sabha, DMK leader Kanimozhi on Wednesday said that the pattern of voting in the 2024 election is against the BJP government at the Centre.
Karunanidhi entered the Tamil Nadu assembly in 1957 and became the chief minister in 1969 after then-chief minister and DMK leader CN Annadurai's death. He passed away in 2018.
K Kanizmozhi, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam's candidate from Thoothukudi Lok Sabha constituency, hit out at the central government and said that still a "repressive regime" is going on.
Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar) chief GK Vasan hit out at the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam-led government in Tamil Nadu accusing them of cheating the people with 'continuous promises'.
"DMK is not silent on this issue. We raised this issue many times but PM Modi and the BJP government never replied. Speaking about Katchatheevu is just for election campaigning, not for people's welfare," she said.
Exuding confidence in winning the polls from Thoothukudi, the DMK MP said, "There is definitely a chance of success in Thoothukudi. All these years, whenever the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) raised questions without answering, Kachchatheevu came to mind only when the opposition pointed
The decades-old issue of Katchatheevu island continued to heat up on Monday, with both Bharatiya Janata Party and the Opposition training guns at each other, ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.