Lottery king Martin’s double-door entry into Tamil Nadu-Puducherry politics?
Lottery King Santiago Martin's family, the biggest Electoral Bonds donor, is making a political move in south India.
Welcome to this week’s Powertrip, a political newsletter exclusively curated for TNM and NL subscribers by Dhanya Rajendran, Shabbir Ahmed and Pooja Prasanna.
In this edition, we look at how lottery king Santiago Martin’s son is trying to plunge into Puducherry politics by winning over a few MLAs with the help of a BJP leader. With his extravagant gifts, he has managed to anger the Chief Minister who is an ally of the BJP.
In the second story, we look at the two demands that Kiran Mazumdar Shaw placed before Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivkumar.
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