To continue with the elections here's an interesting article by my esteemed colleague Rammanohar Reddy in The Hindu,
In search of one crore jobs a year.
Arif Mohammed Khan and Najma Heptullah's betrayal is disgusting. Khan decline has been obvious for some time now. Heptullah was a creation of the Congress culture. I wonder if she has any political base worth the name.
Amma has many surprises in the AIADMK's list for the Lok Sabha polls:
Except T.T.V. Dinakaran, who was elected from Periyakulam and S. Murugesan from Tenkasi, all others are new faces.
The candidates are:
O.S. Manian will contest the Mayiladuturai seat held by Mani Shankar Iyer.
Edappadi K. Pazhanisamy from Tiruchengode
N. Balaganga from Central Chennai
Bader Sayeed from South Chennai
P. Venugopal from Sriperumbudur
K.N. Ramachandran from Chengalpattu
N. Shanmugham from Arakkonam
Paiyyur A. Santhanam from Vellore
K.G. Subramani from Tirupattur
R. Rajalakshmi Rajan from Vandavasi
Arunmozhi Devan from Tindivanam
Sorathur R. Rajendiran from Cuddalore
Nanje Goud from Krishnagiri
S. Anbazhagan from Rasipuram
A. Rajasekaran from Salem
N.R. Govindarajar from Gobichettipalayam
G. Murugan from Pollachi
K. Kishore Kumar from Palani
Raja N. Pazhanisamy from Karur
M. Paranjothi from Tiruchi
M. Sundaram from Perambalur
P.J. Arjunan from Nagapattinam
K. Thangamuthu from Thanjavur
A. Ravichandran from Pudukottai
Suba Karuppaiah from Sivaganga
A.K. Bose from Madurai
S. Murugesan from Ramanathapuram
P. Kannan from Sivakasi
R. Amirthaganesan from Tirunelveli
T. Damodaran from Tiruchendur
M. Jayaraman from Dindigul