K. Rosaiah sworn in Tamil Nadu Governor!

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PTI / The Hindu / CHENNAI, August 31, 2011.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa welcomes the new Governor, K. Rosaiah, on his arrival at the airport in Chennai on Wednesday - PTI.

Former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K. Rosaiah was on Wednesday sworn in as the Governor of Tamil Nadu.

Madras High Court Chief Justice M.Y. Eqbal administered the oath of office to Mr. Rosaiah at a function in Raj Bhavan in Chennai. He succeeds Surjit Singh Barnala.

The brief function was attended by Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa and her Cabinet colleagues among others.

Soon after he was sworn in, Ms. Jayalalithaa and Justice Eqbal presented bouquets to him.

Seventy-eight-year-old Rosaiah, a veteran Congress leader of Andhra Pradesh, brings with him a vast political and ministerial experience having served as Chief Minister from September 3, 2009, to November 24, 2010, besides being a minister in successive Congress governments in the State since 1979.

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http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/tamil-nadu/article2415272.ece

      

TAMILNADU LANDGRABBING SCAM: Ex-DMK minister Ponmudi held on grab charges!

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PTI / The Hindu / CHENNAI, August 31, 2011.

Senior DMK leader and former Tamil Nadu Minister K. Ponmudi - The Hindu.

Senior DMK leader and former Tamil Nadu Minister K. Ponmudi was Wednesday arrested in a land grabbing case.

Mr. Ponmudi, former higher education minister, was arrested from his hometown Villupuram, 160 km from Chennai, police said.

He is the fourth former minister after Veerapandi S. Arumugam (Salem), K.N. Nehru (Tiruchirappalli) and N.K.K.P. Raja (Erode) to be arrested on land grabbing charges in the crackdown launched by the Tamil Nadu government on land grabbing.

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TAMILNADU LANDGRABBING SCAM: TN lottery kingpin arrested!

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CNN-IBN / Updated Aug 13, 2011 at 02:24pm IST.

Chennai: Lottery kingpin Santiago Martin and his brother-in-law Benjamin have been arrested by the Salem city police in Tamil Nadu on charges of land grabbing. The Madras High Court had earlier ordered action against him in the case but the previous DMK government sat on the order.

Martin is known to be close to Karunanidhi. The full extent of the land grabbing allegations against Alagiri's family was revealed by CNN-IBN on Wednesday with documentary evidence. CNN-IBN accessed documents to show how Alagiri's wife Kanthi bought temple land worth over Rs 20 crore for just Rs 85 lakh from a man facing over 50 criminal cases.

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Supreme Court dismisses Tamil Nadu government's appeal on school education!

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NDTV Correspondent, Updated: August 09, 2011 10:55 IST>

Chennai:  In a setback for Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, the Supreme Court today rejected the state's plea to postpone the implementation of the Uniform System of School Education. The government wanted to postpone the implementation of the scheme by a year. 

The court has directed the government to implement the scheme immediately.

The uniform system was brought in by the earlier DMK government. On assuming office in May this year J Jayalalithaa brought an amendment to the law deferring the system for a year. This was done, as she was believed to have found the text books under the system to be full of praise of M Karunanidhi.

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RENEWABLE ENERGY: Tamil Nadu to supply industries with wind power!

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IANS / http://expressbuzz.com / Last Updated : 08 Aug 2011.

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Monday announced a state government scheme to utilise 100 MW wind power generated at nights for supplying to industrial units.

Making a statement in the state assembly, Jayalalithaa said the government has an action plan to utilise the power generated by the windmills between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. owing to strong winds during August and September.

She said the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) would supply the power to those industrial units evincing interest in the scheme, which starts Monday.

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TAMILNADU LANDGRABBING SCAM: Former Minister’s PA arrested!

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PTI / The Hindu / COIMBATORE, August 5, 2011.

In the continuing crackdown by AIADMK government on land grabbing, the personal assistant of former DMK minister Pongalur N. Palanisamy and a DMK general council member were among four arrested on Friday on charges of land grabbing at Chettipalayam area on the city outskirts.

The arrests followed a complaint from one Gunasekaran of Peramanallur near Tirupur that the PA, Nagaraj, DMK General Council member Pasupati and two others that they had grabbed one and half acres of land belonging to him in Perur Chettipalayam, worth over Rs. one crore by forging documents.

Based on the complaint, Nagaraj, Pasupati, Meenkadai Siva, recently released on bail facing another land grabbing case and real estate broker, Venugopal were arrested, police said.

All of them were produced before the judicial magistrate, Satyamurthy, who remanded them to 15 days judicial custody.

Several DMK leaders, including former Tamil Nadu Ministers N.K.K.P. Raja and Veerapandi Arumugam have been arrested on land grabbing charges

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DMK SKELETONS: Former DMK minister, 4 others arrested in land grabbing case!

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PTI / The Hindu / ERODE (TN), August 4, 2011.

Former Tamil Nadu Minister and DMK leader N.K.K.P. Raja and four others were arrested here on Thursday in connection with a land grabbing case.

Raja becomes the second minister of the previous DMK regime to be taken into custody in the continuing crackdown by the AIADMK government on land grabbing, the first being Veerapandi Arumugam who was arrested on July 30.

Raja, former Handloom Minister, Erode Municipal Corporation Mayor K Kumar Muruges, party’s district deputy secretary O.C. Viswanathan, his son Rajendran and one Subramaniam were arrested by the Special Police for Land Grabbing Cell, at 5 a.m., police said.

They were taken into custody following a complaint from one Ramasamy a few days ago that Raja and 11 others, including Muruges and Viswanathan, had visited his house in 2007 and forcibly obtained his signature to sell 60.5 acres of his land at Thendralnagar in Perundurai for the amount he had borrowed from Subramaniam, police said.

He had complained that no money was paid to him, police said.

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RICHEST TEMPLE: TN temple jewels with Sree Padmanabha Swamy temple?

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• July 12, 2011 
• By M. Aruloli 
• DC 
• Kanyakumari.

Sree Padmanabha Swamy temple - AP.

The treasure unearthed from the Padmanabhaswamy temple at Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala triggered a claim that a part of the treasure belongs to the Adikesava Perumal temple of Thiruvattar in Kanyakumari district.

Adikesava Perumal of Thiruvattar was the prime deity of the Travancore kings before they shifted their capital to Thiruvananthapuram from Padmanabhapuram in Kanyakumari district.

According to Mr Radhakrishnan, an advocate who has raked up the issue, the kings would not have completely forsaken their prime deity, Adikesava Perumal and donated all the treasure to the Padmanabhaswamy temple that was built later.

“Had the kings wanted to give more importance to the Padmanabha Swamy temple they would have created a much bigger idol of Padmanabhaswamy lying on the snake,” the advocate said.

The idol at the Thiruvananthapuram temple is 18-ft long, against the 22-ft statue of Adikesava Perumal, which is the longest statue of the Lord lying on a snake couch among the 108 Divya Desams, the holy sites of Vaishnavites, he said.

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WIKILEAKS: ‘Cash for votes a way of political life in South India’, says Maran!

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SARAH HIDDLESTON / the hindu.

Politicians admit to breaking election law: ‘yes, that's the great thing about democracy'

Politicians and their aides in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh admitted to violating election law to influence voters in the 2009 Lok Sabha polls through payments in the form of cash, goods, or services, according to a revealing cable sent to the State Department by Frederick J. Kaplan, Acting Principal Officer of the U.S. Consulate-General in Chennai. In conversations with a visiting consulate team, Karti Chidambaram of the Congress, M. Patturajan, confidant of Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers M.K. Alagiri and former Mayor of Madurai, and Member of Parliament Assaduddin Owaisi of the Majlis-e-Ittenhadul Muslimeen spoke without inhibition about how they, their principals, or their parties made payments to voters during the election campaign.

In a cable sent on May 13, 2009 (206688: confidential), accessed by The Hindu through WikiLeaks, Mr. Kaplan detailed the role and impact of money power in corrupting the electoral process, drawing from information gathered from a variety of sources in the field: “Bribes from political parties to voters, in the form of cash, goods, or services, are a regular feature of elections in South India. Poor voters expect bribes from political candidates, and candidates find various ways to satisfy voter expectations. From paying to dig a community well to slipping cash into an envelope delivered inside the morning newspaper, politicians and their operatives admitted to violating election rules to influence voters. The money to pay the bribes comes from the proceeds of fund-raising, which often crosses into political corruption. Although the precise impact of bribery on voter behavior is hard to measure, it no doubt swings at least some elections, especially the close races.”

Though Embarrassing, I confirm he speaks truth!  But my observation has been that the smart voter would accept money whoever gives him, but votes for his choice candidate or party.

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Man refuses AIADMK sweets, axed to death!

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The celebration of AIADMK supporters after the party swept the Assembly poll turned deadly in nearby Chengalpattu Saturday night when some party men turned violent and attacked a family.

A 41-year-old man, whose family refused to accept sweets from the AIADMK supporters who were celebrating the party’s election victory, was killed and three others were injured at Tirumani village in Chengalpattu, Kanchipuram district on Saturday night.

The police said Dayalan, a woodcutter on Yadavar Street in Tirumani, and his son were standing on the street when a group of AIADMK supporters led by Ravi was distributing sweets in the area.

I think this is height of Partisan Madness!

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Exit Polls, Tamilnadu: Karunanidhi out, Jayalalithaa in!

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Exit polls, conducted by CVB News-C-Voter, suggest that Tamil Nadu is set to have a new chief minister in the form of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam chief J Jayalalithaa

Corruption and Nepotism appears to have been the undoing of DMK, deservedly!

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