#Tamilnadu

Vetrivel had earlier advised former CM Jayalalithaa but fell out with her after wrongly predicting that she would not be jailed

From Indianexpress RSS Feed: In Tamil Nadu flux, BJP spots an opening: Flexible DMK, weaker Opposition

From Indianexpress RSS Feed: Vijay stakes claim in Tamil Nadu, Governor says show me the numbers

From 339 in 2013 to 282 now; steepest fall in UP, Bengal and Bihar even as population share remains high, BJP has only two Muslim MLAs

The DMK’s welfare regime is one of the most elaborate in the country and the one the others copied. By the textbook of welfare delivery, it should have won. It did not

An analysis of 38 parties' debuts in Assembly polls – 13 in Tamil Nadu and 25 across India – shows that only a handful of them have found success in their bids, and fewer have been able to convert it into a long-term presence

Both states were part of the BJP’s “Coromandel blueprint” that was prepared after it emerged as a dominant pole in Indian politics.