Tamil Nadu State Elections 2006 Update

It is my pleasure to pen this article – Tamil Nadu Elections 2006. I always wanted to write about the elections 2006, since lot of hot things are happenning!

The opinions below are my personal opinions and does not come from an organization’s perspective. As a citizen of India, I have right to express my thoughts. Well coming to the article –

AIADMK has done some good things in this ruling period. AIADMK supremo Ms. J Jayalalitha had worked hard to get some of the plans work for the poor and needy. Some of the autocratic decisions are not acceptable in this rule. She has not cooperated very well with the central government, because many tamil nadu ministers in central are from the opposition parties. It is heard that AIADMK is offering crores to actors and actresses for joining their party. AIADMK had been opposing the manifesto published by the opposition parties for their free color TV and Rs.2 for 1 Kg rice. Now, they have come up with some refined manifesto of providing 10Kg rice free, which when calculated for the approximate budget comes up as a bad budget of 800 crores, which is not feasible at all.

DMK did a good rule couple of years back, but did not win in that particular elections, which was surprising. Well, nothing is predictable. Currently DMK has come up with manifesto stating – free color TV and Rs.2 for 1 Kg rice. Atlast, using the media power DMK has, it is being justified that it is possible. Actor cum Director K.Bhagyaraj is campaigning DMK. Actor Sarath Kumar and actress Radhika left the party to join the opposition AIADMK, because of disrespect to him by an Union Minister Dayanidhi Maran.

Many projections say that AIADMK has a higher hand, but considering some recent changes in their manifesto, we cannot say anything – about who is going to win this elections.

Check out the media strength of DMK –
Print Media: Dinakaran, Tamizh Murasu, Kungumam, Mutharam, Vannathirai, Kunguma Chimizh.
FM Channels: Suryan FM Chennai, Suryan FM Coimbatore, SuryanFM Nellai, Visakha FM.
TV Channels: Sun TV, K TV, Gemini TV, Udaya TV, Surya TV, Teja TV, Ushe TV, SUN Music, Kiran TV, Adhithya TV, Udhaya2, Udaya News, Sun News, Teja News.

Check out the media strength of AIADMK –
Jaya TV Channel, Dr.Namathu MGR Newspaper.

If you are watching only SUN TV, you will vote for Rising Sun – DMK.
If you are watching only JAYA TV, you will vote for Two Leaves – AIADMK.
These two parties use their media to a great extent.

Vijaya T Rajendran has floated a party recently – Latchiya DMK – LDMK and joined hands with DMK.

A new entrant to politics has to be mentioned here as well. Actor turned Politician, DMDK Chief, Captain Vijayakanth. It is said that Vijayakanth is stealing the votes of AIADMK, than that of DMK. His propogando is against the rule of DMK and ADMK. He claims, Dravidian parties ruled so far had been cheating people so far and had not really been effective. He also seem to have a good vote bank with him. All the Best to him. However, both the parties had said he is not a threat to them at all. Also, Vijayakanth seem to use Dr. MG Ramachandran’s name lot more than AIADMK!

All India Forward Bloc chief Karthik working in one side. He comes in news at times, that he has got threats from a party for not contesting. This is because he was requested by their party members to contest against a heavy-weight – AIADMK Supreo Ms.Jayalalitha. Recently a member of AIFC attempted suicide and he was dead today.

The projection mentioned above could be kind of old, and it is projected by The Hindu – leading south indian newspaper. As per the situations currently, anything could change in people’s mind.

Everyone’s campaign meeting could get crowd, but nobody can say who will win in this Tamil Nadu Elections 2006.

Let us wait and see for May 8th!!

All the Best to all the parties contesting this elections and hope whoever wins will serve the state to the best possible. –

MADURAI TIMES TEAM

State Tamil Nadu is getting scrambled!

The rice scheme announced by AIADMK has astonishing financial implications to the state government.
Here is a simple calculation –
Please check out a ORU CUP COFFEE BLOG for more details. (Thanks Jags)

Tamil Nadu – Literacy Percentage!

This is a very interesting map – I spent 10 minutes taking a look at this map. I had to derive lot of things from this map. i had so many questions in my mind popping up?

Let me list out some of them here. I would like to answer those questions in one of the forthcoming articles as well.

1. I could not derive anything for the (good) cause of the high literacy rate of Tuticorin, Nilgiris. Kanyakumari and Nilgiris district is literate may because it is near Kerala, but we need to find the reason behind tuticorin, which is a good thing and we need to apply in other districts?

2. Why would there be a differentiation in literacy rate, when the government plans apply a same plan all across tamil nadu.

3. Why Madurai is not highest in literacy percentage? I am happy that atleast it is in secondary stage!

4. Is this differentiation because of politics or is it because of people? Probably because of people response towards the government plans.

5. Why there is backwardness in some of the places of tamilnadu?

Note: Tamil Nadu State’s districts are listed in the map – Tiruvallur, Chennai, Vellore, Kancheepuram, Dharmapuri, Tiruvannamalai, Villupuram, Salem, Nilgiris, Erode, Namakkal, Perambalur, Ariyalur, Tiruvarur, Tiruchirappalli(trichy), Karur, Coimbatore, Thanjavur, Nagapattinam, Dindigul, Pudukkottai, Theni, Madurai, Sivagangai(Sivaganga), Virudhunagar, Ramanathapuram, Tirunelveli, Tuticorin(Thoothukkudi) and Kanyakumari.

Middle Class – Madurai, South India

A class photo of a middle class family – father, mother and a kid having a leisure time in the beach. There is nothing I am going to write –

Just enjoy watching this peaceful picture of a family, even though there might be lot of hassles in the family.

Crores for campaigning

I am really ashamed and surprised to hear this – Crores are being offered for actors to join and campaign for the party!!:-(

It really frustrates me that we are still being fooled by an actor campaigning for a party!

Next to that – the political party offers lot of cash for joining them. I don’t know how do they get so much money, by just being a position in administration!

In my life, it is a dream to make just ONE CRORE, and I hope it just won’t become a dream! But these guys have so much crores to offer for their business.

It makes me angry in fact, but not sure how to express it. Hence this blog article.

Some of the (rumours)it might not be accurate or might not be correct –
1. Vaiko was offered 40 crores to join the party.
2. Top actor like Kamala haassan is offered 100 crores to join and campaign for the party.
3. Actor Sarath Kumar and Radhika is offered with 40 crores to join the party!

These are some of the party’s rumour. I will pray god for all these be false statements.

Disclaimer: All the articles in this blog are my personal opinions and does not reflect any organization’s opinions. Any organization is not responsible for the opinions above. These articles are not to hurt anybody.

Drinking in the day time!

In Madurai, it is very common for some of the road-romeos, to drink in the day-time, even though they don’t have money for food and to give to the family.

These folks won’t even have job, food to feed their family – but he would be the first person to appear while the wine shop opens. He will drink and lie down in the road unconciously.

Even though, drinking in the morning is common in western culture, they will make sure they are doing their work properly in their weekdays and enjoy in weekends and vacation times. But our poor folks are really spoilt because of liquor, when they don’t even have money for lunch/dinner.

There are various rehabilitation centres even in Madurai working on these kind of cases.

The real sufferers are the family women, who do not work, but expect money from husband, because he is considered the actual bread-winner. I have myself seen many cases like this very closely.

Atlast, you know what happens usually? Yes – the ladies start working to their capacity. That is what happens.

There are various SHG(Self Help Women’s Group) who have started working and they are rocking in whatever they are doing, which is improving their life and their children’s life to the maximum!

Boiled(Avicha) Kadalai

Whenever I hear about Kadalai(Ground Nut), I always remember my days in Madurai College House Road – Town Hall Road, Madurai.

I used to go in my two-wheeler, park it in the parking places of that road. There are four-wheeled wooden carts in which they have the lights for the night. These carts sell boiled ground nuts. These ground nuts comes with salty water and the street vendor gives it rolled in a newspaper – ex:kunkumam magazine paper and it is really tasty in that environment. I used to buy boiled ground nuts and walk in that road having the ground nuts slowly one by one.

If you are in Madurai, try the same thing and I am sure you will enjoy it!