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17Oct

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From national Dalit-Adivasi conclaves to Maharashtra polls, VCK’s aspirations go beyond Tamil Nadu

Chennai: Tamil Nadu’s leading Ambedkarite party, Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK), is looking to contest the Maharashtra assembly polls and to ask its INDIA bloc ally, the Congress, to give it a few seats as it pushes to grow beyond the southern state and project party chief Thol Thirumavalavan as a national leader. S.S. Balaji, a VCK MLA from Thiruporur, told ThePrint the party would even consider contesting alone to exhibit its strength if it didn’t get seats from the Congress. He said Thirumavalavan will try to meet Congress leaders during a visit to Mumbai next week to meet cadres. The party is still working out Thirumavalavan’s schedule for his Mumbai visit. “We will be having discussions with the INDIA alliance. We will try to contest and definitely field candidates in Maharashtr...

10Oct

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How Samsung workers’s strike has sparked divisions within DMK-Led alliance in Tamil Nadu

Chennai: The Tamil Nadu State government led by the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) is in quandary as its own alliance partners—the Congress, Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK), CPI, and CPI(M)—have extended their support to the month-long strike by the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)-affiliated Samsung Electronics workers at Sriperumbudur, Kancheepuram district. This is likely to create tensions between the DMK and its INDIA bloc alliance partners, coming just a week after the VCK set aside controversy over its demand for a share in power. The Kancheepuram district police Wednesday arrested the protesting workers led by the CITU president and CPI(M) leader A. Soundararajan at the protest site about 1 km away from the Samsung plant at Sriperumbudur. The workers are demanding ...

27Sep

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Frenemies in an alliance ‘based on principle’. In TN, VCK & DMK are sticking together despite friction

Chennai: For over two weeks, Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK), an Ambedkarite party in Tamil Nadu, has been needling its alliance partner, the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), amid talks of a rift emerging within the alliance. However, VCK leader Thol. Thirumavalavan has been quick to diffuse the situation, reaffirming that the alliance remains intact despite differing views on governance issues. The friction between the two parties centres on VCK’s desire for a share of power in the government, a demand made and reiterated ever since they entered electoral politics in 1999. Show Full Article However, tensions escalated last week when VCK’s Deputy General Secretary, Aadhav Arjuna, made comments about Chief Minister M.K. Stalin’s son and Tamil Nadu’s...