AIADMK-led alliance will win 210 seats, says Palaniswami

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AIADMK wide   caput   Edappadi K. Palaniswami and BJP person  Tamilisai Soundararajan campaigning successful  Chennai connected  Wednesday, March 25, 2026.

AIADMK wide caput Edappadi K. Palaniswami and BJP person Tamilisai Soundararajan campaigning successful Chennai connected Wednesday, March 25, 2026. | Photo Credit: RAGHUNATHAN SR

Launching his predetermination run from Mylai Mangollai successful Chennai connected Wednesday, AIADMK wide caput and erstwhile Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami said the AIADMK-led NDA would triumph 210 seats and signifier the authorities with an implicit majority.

Campaigning successful Mylapore, a constituency allotted to the BJP, helium appeared alongside BJP person and erstwhile Governor of Telangana, Tamilisai Soundararajan, contempt the information that the BJP is yet to officially denote her candidature. In 2001, the BJP had won the constituency erstwhile the DMK was successful an confederation with the BJP-led NDA.

Earlier, Mr. Palaniswami, accompanied by enactment cadre, visited the Kapaleeswarar Temple successful Mylapore and offered peculiar prayers astatine the temple.

Comparing his confederation with the DMK-led front, Mr. Palaniswami said the information of the DMK was pitiable.

“Three days ago, we invited our confederation partners to our enactment bureau and announced the spot allocations. The precise adjacent day, we released our predetermination manifesto. Since our manifesto benefits the people, it is being wide appreciated. Similarly, we held discussions with leaders of the confederation parties and finalised the seat-sharing arrangement. Not lone that, the AIADMK has besides released its archetypal database of candidates. We are the archetypal enactment to marque specified an announcement. We person released a database of 23 candidates,” helium said. He added that the remaining candidates would beryllium announced successful a mates of days.

“The confederation parties successful the DMK struggled for 20 days conscionable to signifier an alliance. Every enactment is struggling successful the alliance, and they are forced to combat adjacent to unafraid constituencies. The DMK confederation parties are treated similar subordinates, whereas the AIADMK confederation leaders relation independently,” Mr. Palaniswami said.

Claiming that the DMK authorities had done thing for the radical successful the past 5 years, helium said, “The DMK is simply a family-run enactment driven by dynastic politics, and they person simply rebranded the AIADMK’s schemes. The storm-water drain task was initiated during the AIADMK’s tenure, with 2,400 km having been covered. Phases 1 and 2 were completed nether AIADMK rule, portion phases 3 and 4 stay incomplete nether the DMK government. Two years ago, [Chief Minister] Stalin and metropolis officials claimed that Chennai would not look h2o stagnation. Yet, flooding persists.”

“Ahead of the past Assembly polls, the DMK made 525 promises but fulfilled not adjacent a 4th of them. Yet, they falsely assertion that 98% of the promises person been fulfilled. Did they waive acquisition loans? Did they abolish NEET? They misled radical and students with mendacious assurances. Taxes person accrued drastically — spot taxation by 100%, commercialized taxation by 150%, and energy tariff by 52%. The outgo of surviving has skyrocketed, and the authorities has failed to power prices. Under the AIADMK regime, a ₹100-crore terms stabilisation money ensured that indispensable commodities remained affordable. But the DMK has shown nary interest connected this front,” helium said.

Alleging that cause maltreatment was rampant, starring to crime, and that instrumentality and bid had deteriorated, helium said murders, robberies, and assaults were occurring frequently.

“Women’s information has been severely compromised, with thousands of POCSO cases having been registered. Such a authorities indispensable beryllium removed. The AIADMK-led confederation indispensable triumph decisively to reconstruct instrumentality and order,” Mr. Palaniswami said.

Published - March 25, 2026 09:26 p.m. IST

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