P Panneerselvam

The Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker, P Dhanapal, overstepped his jurisdiction and disqualified 18 AIADMK lawmakers when a dispute over the party's name and symbol by rival claimants was pending before the Election Commission, counsel for them claimed in the Madras High Court today.

Tamil Nadu's DMK party under the leadership of Working President MK Stalin is holding a day-long hunger strike against the events that unfolded in the Tamil Nadu Assembly on February 18, when Chief Minister E Palaniswami had to prove his majority in the House.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister E Palaniswami won a test of strength on Saturday in an assembly where close to 100 opposition lawmakers were missing after violence and chaos over a demand for secret voting. But the trust vote may only be the first of many battles that the 63-year-old Chief Minister will have to fight. Former chief minister O Panneerselva...

Speaker P Dhanapal was pushed out of his chair, his microphone broken, a table toppled and chairs broken before Chief Minister E Palaniswami survived the first trust vote Tamil Nadu assembly in nearly three decades. But the brickbats continued, not just at Marina Beach but on social media also.

A free-for-all erupted inside the Tamil Nadu assembly on Saturday over a trust vote as aggressive demands for secret voting degenerated into chairs and tables being broken, mics being broken and the Speaker being manhandled.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister E Palaniswami won a test of strength today in an assembly where close to 100 opposition lawmakers were missing after violence and chaos over a demand for secret voting. But the trust vote may only be the first of many battles that the 63-year-old Chief Minister will have to fight. O Panneerselvam has promised that he had l...

Hours after a rebellion in Tamil Nadu's ruling party by O Panneerselvam, a loyalist of J Jayalalithaa who took charge as Chief Minister after her death, one of the four persons to come out openly in his support is V Maitreyan. The three-time Rajya Sabha member, who carries a photograph of Amma or Jayalalithaa in his pocket and vows to always do so...

Former AIADMK minister K P Munusamy on Monday slammed V K Sasikala for making a "backdoor entry" to the Chief Minister's post and questioned why O Panneerselvam made way for her despite being the "preferred choice" of late Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa.

Pandemonium prevailed in Tamil Nadu Assembly today following a privilege issue directed against DMK chief M Karunanidhi with his party members tearing its copies and raising slogans against Speaker P Dhanapal before being evicted from the House.

Days after AIADMK supremo and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa rejigged the party's core team ahead of Assembly elections next year, the new office bearers today called on her and took her blessings.

Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker P Dhanapal on Thursday suspended all lawmakers of the state's main opposition party from the rest of the ongoing Assembly session, after one of them made an allegedly disparaging remark about Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, in relation to the result of the disproprtionate assets case against her.

Vigilance officials today conducted raids in the premises of former DMK minister N K K P Raja across Tamil Nadu in connection with a disproportionate assets case. The raids by officials of the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti Corruption were in progress in Chennai and Erode districts, DVAC sources said.

The Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker, P Dhanapal, overstepped his jurisdiction and disqualified 18 AIADMK lawmakers when a dispute over the party's name and symbol by rival claimants was pending before the Election Commission, counsel for them claimed in the Madras High Court today.

Tamil Nadu's DMK party under the leadership of Working President MK Stalin is holding a day-long hunger strike against the events that unfolded in the Tamil Nadu Assembly on February 18, when Chief Minister E Palaniswami had to prove his majority in the House.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister E Palaniswami won a test of strength on Saturday in an assembly where close to 100 opposition lawmakers were missing after violence and chaos over a demand for secret voting. But the trust vote may only be the first of many battles that the 63-year-old Chief Minister will have to fight. Former chief minister O Panneerselva...

Speaker P Dhanapal was pushed out of his chair, his microphone broken, a table toppled and chairs broken before Chief Minister E Palaniswami survived the first trust vote Tamil Nadu assembly in nearly three decades. But the brickbats continued, not just at Marina Beach but on social media also.

A free-for-all erupted inside the Tamil Nadu assembly on Saturday over a trust vote as aggressive demands for secret voting degenerated into chairs and tables being broken, mics being broken and the Speaker being manhandled.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister E Palaniswami won a test of strength today in an assembly where close to 100 opposition lawmakers were missing after violence and chaos over a demand for secret voting. But the trust vote may only be the first of many battles that the 63-year-old Chief Minister will have to fight. O Panneerselvam has promised that he had l...

Hours after a rebellion in Tamil Nadu's ruling party by O Panneerselvam, a loyalist of J Jayalalithaa who took charge as Chief Minister after her death, one of the four persons to come out openly in his support is V Maitreyan. The three-time Rajya Sabha member, who carries a photograph of Amma or Jayalalithaa in his pocket and vows to always do so...

Former AIADMK minister K P Munusamy on Monday slammed V K Sasikala for making a "backdoor entry" to the Chief Minister's post and questioned why O Panneerselvam made way for her despite being the "preferred choice" of late Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa.

Pandemonium prevailed in Tamil Nadu Assembly today following a privilege issue directed against DMK chief M Karunanidhi with his party members tearing its copies and raising slogans against Speaker P Dhanapal before being evicted from the House.

Days after AIADMK supremo and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa rejigged the party's core team ahead of Assembly elections next year, the new office bearers today called on her and took her blessings.

Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker P Dhanapal on Thursday suspended all lawmakers of the state's main opposition party from the rest of the ongoing Assembly session, after one of them made an allegedly disparaging remark about Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, in relation to the result of the disproprtionate assets case against her.

Vigilance officials today conducted raids in the premises of former DMK minister N K K P Raja across Tamil Nadu in connection with a disproportionate assets case. The raids by officials of the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti Corruption were in progress in Chennai and Erode districts, DVAC sources said.