DMK confident of alliance with Congress
In Karnataka, a government inquiry’s scathing report accuses a state-run institution of misusing around Rs 300 crore over three years.
Welcome to this week’s Powertrip, a political newsletter exclusively curated for TNM and NL subscribers. This week’s edition is by Shabbir Ahmed, Nandini Chandrashekar, and Nidheesh MK.
In our first story in this edition, we report on the tensions escalating in the DMK-Congress alliance in Tamil Nadu over power sharing. Meanwhile, politics is being reflected in the Tamil film industry as well, with a proxy war between Vijay’s ‘Jana Nayagan’ and DMK-linked movie ‘Parasakthi’, both Pongal releases.
A government inquiry into two state-run institutions in north Karnataka could land a few top bureaucrats of the state in trouble.
Prodigal MP Shashi Tharoor seems back in the Congress fold in Kerala. The party seems to have converted him into a campaign asset, with the promise of a Delhi role.
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