Go out of India Rajapakse!

Rajapakse, Srilanka - you are the man who had killed our tamilians brutelessly.

Why did you come to India? You should not be allowed into India at all.
Nenju porukkuthillai...Every tamilian in the world will have this feeling and Rajapakse is considered to be a criminal and he is given red carpet in India.

Government, please just don't do politics only with this issue. Please do some action.

This is totally not acceptable. A common man like me is not able to do anything but just cry over a blog or hold a mike and talk! No action is taken by anybody.

Rajapakse is a criminal who has killed thousands of TAMILIANS in Srilanka!!!

Why is a BANDH needed, when there is no use but LOSS only?

It is a pain of all small business owners, who are suffering with the politicians and their policies.

Who is asking for a BANDH? What is the use of it? This BANDH is arranged by all the opposition parties against the ruling government. All shops get closed. Buses do not run as usual.

Because of this situation, shall I explain the situation of all small business owners?

We don't have all the employees to work for the left out 3 hours power cut in the day for them to work.
Because of this productivity gets disturbed and we don't get the expected output.

There is no safety for woman folks coming to office. There is no proper security for marketing executives who work in field. There is no proper hotels or food for employees, since the shops and hotels are closed.

What will happen to the small shops and businesses who believe in daily income? Because of this bandh, they don't get the usual income and how will they pay their bills? how will they give salary to their employees?

You, stupid government is leading us to job losses and business closures.
 Then, why won't people migrate out of the country for better jobs outside? Then why won't our people invent and invest outside India?

Stop making stupid policies and start doing proper planning. Do not leave the people suffer!!

Management outlook/perspective of Tamil Nadu Political scenario

When somebody is running a political party, it is again a corporate company. The way a corporate company is managed is equal to the way a political party is managed. There is a leader or CEO of the party, sales and marketing team, business development team, financiers, treasurers/CFOs, leaf level party men who work for the benefit of the party.

When I wear the management hat and see the functioning of the parties in Tamil Nadu, I see only two categories of management philosophy being used. This is my personal opinion and I don't represent any organization or newspaper or company or party in Tamil Nadu.

AIADMK -
1) Mostly centralized management (One person CEO decision). Any decision is taken by centre (Chennai based CM).
2) End level party men cannot make any decision or even district level decisions cannot be made very easily. It has to be approved by the centre (Chennai based CM).
3) In other hand, the centre(Chennai based CM) is not reachable very easily. Hence the decisions are not made easily and not done very fast.
4) But - if a decision is made, then that implementation is done successfully, because all of the party workers will listen and do their duty properly, because there is more listening to the centre of the Tamil Nadu Government.
5) Overall, too much centralization.

DMK -
1) Here it is little different from the above in terms of centralization and decision making. Centre (Chennai based CM government by DMK) has lot of power spread across different people in Chennai itself.
2) Lot of power is given to the decentralized units like Madurai, Salem, Southern districts, Chennai suburbs, Chennai, Coimbatore etc., Too much decentralization is also a problem.
3) Overall, here it is a combination of centralization and decentralization, but there is centralization and also too much decentralization here.

Given the two parties, it is either centralization or too much decentralization and also centralization spread too much as well.

An ideal and good management style appropriate for Tamil Nadu would be to have Centralization and also do controlled decentralization. That would be the best style and appropriate government schemes can reach the people very easily. Hope either of the parties or new parties listens to this and make sure management is done well for the benefit of Tamil Nadu people.

Press or Media - Being Neutral and Successful at same time is not there!

Can you tell me a Press or Media in Tamil Nadu which is successful and at the same time being neutral?

You cannot answer properly to that question. I don't want to name any of the TV media, Radio, Newspaper or Magazine etc., in Tamil Nadu, but you know which media is associated with which political party etc.,

Press is supposed to be neutral and be working only for people's benefit. Why can't the press stand alone and not associate with one political party of Tamil Nadu.

This applies to both the major parties in Tamil Nadu. At any point of time, as a consumer least I should be doing is - read both the newspapers. If a website or media or newspaper is neutral then they are not going to be successful at all. That is the unwritten theory practically happening!

Split Tamil Nadu (TamilNadu) into two states? - Chennai and Madurai as two capital cities!??

Is it good or bad to split Tamil Nadu into two states?

Well, hold on, hold on...This is only a question. I am not in favour of anything. This article is just an analysis. This is a highly political question.

After the outbreak of the decision of Central government to split Andhra Pradesh, there were lot of celebrations and oppositions from Andhra people from different parts of the state for the decision made. Following that, there were many states in the country asking for splitting their state too. In that, one of them was Tamil Nadu.

Not all of the political leaders were in favour of the split of Tamil Nadu. One of them was PMK party leader Dr.Ramadoss was in favor of the split of Tamil Nadu. Dr. Ramdoss said in an interview that - "While he proposed for the same split of Tamil Nadu long back, there was huge opposition, but there is no one opposing the split of Tamil Nadu NOW. Things have changed and people seem to like it, if proposed. Here is the video of Dr. Ramadoss in a press meet about split of Tamil Nadu. Why did they branch out and bring High Court to Madurai? Because - people from south do not have to go all the way to the Chennai city – that is the reason. It is all administrative convenience. Similarly the state can also split and be administered better.” – said PMK Leader Dr.Ramadoss.

What would they do if they split Tamilnadu into two states? North Tamil Nadu and South Tamil Nadu will be two states. There would be equal money contribution from the Center for development of states. Chennai would be the capital of former and Madurai would for latter. Obviously, there would be more concentration of improvement in Southern districts of Tamil Nadu, but the integrity as ONE TAMIL NADU will be broken. Will we want that?

The split should not have been talked about, but since the topic has come up, let us analyze it - right? We are not in favour of anybody, but just let us talk about it.

As ONE Tamil nadu, we have been integrated all the time wherever we go. Say - what if someone asks for separate country for Tamil nadu – will you accept it? I guess – it was already asking for These kinds of proposals will be always there. What is wrong in the current setup as ONE TAMIL NADU as part of ONE COUNTRY INDIA? Why can’t we just live with one tamil nadu state, and as a part of one country India. Why do we have to split it?

Some might argue that – administration will be better and improvement focus can be given to areas which are not given much attention. Quality and improvement of people in those areas can be increased.

In other side, separate administration will lead to a new ministers and have more funds flow and some politicians might favour from it. In other hand – people in the southern districts might also get favoured. Having said that – Did Jharkand or Uttaranchal improve drastically, just because it was split into two states?

Though the topic is very political, the situation is going to be same – even though the split happens.

What I would say is – let us just live with the same setup and live as ONE TAMIL NADU, instead of the split of the state. This will avoid new expenses like elections and doing some personal favors.

Let us try to improve as one state and one country and one mankind world!!

Note: The above is only my personal opinion and does not intend or aim to hurt or spoil or favor anybody or any organization or entity. I have the freedom of speech to express my opinions.

Madurai Lok Sabha Election Candidate evaluation - Mohan

P Mohan MP

Ponnuswamy Mohan (born 30 December 1949) is a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Madurai constituency of Tamil Nadu and is a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) political party.

He was born in Sholavanthan, Madurai. He had completed BA in Educated at American College, Madurai (Tamil Nadu).

Member, State Committee, C.P.I. (M), Tamil Nadu ( ) , Member, District Secretariat, C.P.I. (M), Madurai, Tamil Nadu ( ) , Elected to 13th Lok Sabha( 1999) , Re-elected to 14 Lok Sabha (2nd term)( 2004) , Member, Committee on Urban Development( ) , Member, Committee on Petroleum and Natural Gas( 5 Aug. 2007 onwards).

Mohan Ponnuswamy had won two times for Lok Sabha from 1999. This year's election is going to be tough, because DMK candidate is a powerful man Mr.Azhagiri, with strength in Madurai and south tamil nadu districts and with family connections in the State and party connections in Central Government.

Overall, all we want is good stuff for Madurai. It does not matter whoever comes into power. All the Best and Good luck for every candidate in Madurai.

Let us have Madurai's voice heard in India and let it become a recognizable point in world map, in addition to its tourism significance.

Vijayakanth changes DMDK candidate in Madurai

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Vijayakanth changes DMDK candidate in Madurai

DMDK had Muthulakshmi as the candidate for Madurai. But, after the announcement of DMK as Mr.Azhagiri being given the seat in Madurai, DMDK evaluated the situation in Madurai.

DMDK President and Actor Vijayakanth decided to change the DMDK candidate for Madurai. Kaviarasu is the candidate from DMDK now. Muthulakshmi is moved to sivaganga most probably. Kaviarasu was a business man in Madurai leading the youth club of Vijayakanth fans.

There is not much popularity for Kaviarasu, however Vijayakanth is a popular personality among Madurai folks. We are not sure about the motive behind this change.

Thirumangalam by election update

Tirumangalam by election updates here...

Our original post on Thirumangalam by election.

DMK candidate Latha Adhiyaman won the election by 39,266 votes difference.

லதா அதியமான் (திமுக) - 79, 422
முத்துராமலிங்கம் (அதிமுக) - 40,156
தனப்பாண்டியன் (தேமுதிக) - 13,136
பத்மநாபன் (அகில இந்திய சமத்துவ மக்கள் கட்சி) - 831

List of Madurai Collectors in 21st century

List of Madurai Collectors from 2001 to 2008

Madurai Times bloggers (online reporters) researched and have got a list of Madurai Collectors. If there is any mistake, please correct us...

2001 V. Thangavelu
2002 S. Ramachandran
2003 Dr B. Chandra Mohan
2004 D Raajendiran
2005 D Raajendiran
2006 T Udhayachandran
2007 D Karthikeyan
2007 S S Jawahar
2007 G. Sundaramurthy
2008 P Seetharaman

Hopefully, this is a helpful information for our visitors...

Tirumangalam election update: Madurai Politics

Thirumangalam election update

1) Almost 90% of the constituency voters voted yesterday.
2) January 10th is the election result
3) DMK, ADMK and DMDK is curious about the whole result.
4) DMK and ADMK is considering this election as semi-finals before the lok sabha election.
5) DMDK is looking for a great turning point
6) Poll went on peacefully, and no discrepancy happened on the election day.
7) However, there are lot of complaints until the election day before's night.

Will update the consequences of the election result, once the result is out!

Economic Stimulus Package in Madurai??

A vote in Thirumangalam election is worth Rs.1000 from one party.
Say Party A gives Rs.1000, at the sametime Party B also give Rs.1000 for the same person.

A single family has husband and wife. If that family includes parents as well, then it is probably worth Rs.4000 or Rs.5000.

All the businesses, theaters, hotels, restaurants, alcoholic bar shops etc., are getting good business.

Is it a stimulus package for Tirumangalam constituency - Madurai!!!???

TAMIL NADU Politicians and their Heirs

I happened to encounter this website, while I was taking a walk in the internet street.

Get to know a little bio-data of the future and current young politicians of Tamil Nadu -

Azhagiri’s Son - M K DURAI DAYANIDHI (son, 21)
Azhagiri’s Daughter - M K KAYALVIZHI (daughter, 32)

KARUNANIDHI Daughter - Kanimozhi (daughter, 40)
P Chidambaram Son - Karti P Chidambaram (son, 36)

RAMADOSS SON - Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss (son 39)
M Krishnasamy Son - M K Vishnu Prasad (son 35)

Read more here

DMK Women Conference, Cuddalore

The two-day DMK Women's wing conference, aimed at expanding its support base ahead of the next Lok Sabha elections, kicked-off here on Saturday with women members of party Chief M Karunanidhi's family taking the centre stage for the first time.

The party, in a show of strength of its women power, took out an impressive rally, in which over 50,000 women from all over the state, clad in black and white sarees and churidhar, participated.

Karunanidhi, accompanied by his wife-Dayalu, 'life-partner' Rajathi, daughter Kanimozhi and grand daughter Kayalvizhi, witnessed the party flag being hoisted at a 85-feet high post, signalling the age of the DMK patriarch.

read more here

Madurai M.K.Azhagiri

MK Azhagiri | M.K.Azhagiri | M K Azhagiri

Mr. M K Azhagiri is a powerful personality in Madurai and southern districts of Tamil Nadu.  Anything is possible for this brave-hearted man! If he wants, he can make Madurai a great Madurai, and now he says he can change Madurai into a Model city in his election manifesto as a vision. Check this out 

He is expected to change Madurai into a Model City. Check this out - 

Recent DMK Madurai Election Manifesto 2009

Following is not my opinion or views. This article is sourced from wikipedia.

Muthuvel Karunanidhi Azhagiri, generally known as M. K. Azhagiri, Madurai, is an Indian politician. The elder son of the head of the Dravida Munnetra Kazagham, Karunanidhi, he is a candidate to succeed him as party president.

It is being said that - following clashes between the supporters of M. K. Stalin and M. K. Azhagiri, he was sent to manage the party in the southern districts of Tamil Nadu from Madurai, while M. K. Stalin was retained in Chennai to manage the party in the northern districts.

M.K.Azhagiri has two daughters and one son. He lives in Madurai.

Source: Wikipedia

He is expected to change Madurai into a Model City. Check this out - 

Recent DMK Madurai Election Manifesto 2009

Leaders, Education, Youth, Corruption, Our Country!!

Most of the problems starts with Leaders! Leaders in our country are not as great as
olden days Or not as great as many countries in the world.

Ofcourse, we are a democracy and we elect the leaders. Leaders are our representation for administrating and governing the country. This applies to only the time, the leaders are elected in our country. After they step up to power, their attitude changes. Leaders are not an example to the people. Leaders should exemplify themselves to the people. This does not apply to Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam and few others. The President definitely exemplifies with his character.

Most of the leaders in our country are selfish. Leaders are corrupt. There are very few leaders who are not corrupt and who do not do illegal and criminal stuff. In some way or other bribes are being given.

How long people would be fools like today!? When will people change and understand the whole situation around these corrupt leaders!? I am sure everyone understands the situation, but nobody reacts or acts to the situation. This excludes some non-profit organizations.

Even if anybody comes out and gives words against these political leaders, they get silenced after some threatens! Who would come out and give voices?! Who would change the world and make the country a better place to live? Who will tie the bell around the cat's neck!?

Leaders have to be moulded from the day 1. It is all possible through youngsters only! It is all possible through the education! Youngsters should come out with courage, planning, intelligence, honesty and skilled!

This is definitely possible! Not by just waking up and start the task! But this can be achieved by sheer planning and execution to make this country a better place.

A day has to come when we are not frustrated and tortured with various corruption items in our country. Things has to be clean!!! I mean real CLEAN in terms of no-crime!!

Corrupt Madurai RTO Office: Had to Bribe in 2000

Please note that the below story is about an incident happenned in 2000. I am NOT sure about the current situation in Madurai RTO office. But please read on about the real incident in the past.

Corrupt Madurai RTO Office: Did Bribing in the year 2000
This dates back to year 2000. Right after my college and my company placement I had training in a local driving school and managed to get trained for 30 days - two and four wheeler training.

I appeared on the day of the license. I did pass in my driving tests. While standing in queue for the application, I had to pay Rs.20 for republic day stamp. I crossed 2 tables and had to pay atleast Rs.20 to Rs.30 to the officers desk.

This is somewhere in the middle of year 2000. I am not sure what is the situation now in Madurai RTO office. This happenned in Bye-Pass Road - South Madurai.

I had to pay because everyone paid. If I don't pay the bribe, I cannot get my license. In fact, I saw the officers in their khakhi pants and white shirts, we going past the queue, when the things are happenning.

I remember it clearly, but I cannot do anything. This happenned in every government office in Madurai. Why should I pay for the government services, provided by the government servants, who are getting paid as salary by the government.

This should change! I heard from someone that these days they don't ask for bribe. Good to hear that and I wish it remains the same.

As said by Tamil Film Director Shankar in his movie "Indian" - casted by actor padmashree Kamalhassan - he says Officers abroad get "lanjam"(bribe), for not doing or overriding some rules and laws, But Officers in India are getting money for doing their duty in India.

God Bless Madurai and overall India!

Madurai under the clutches of rowdies and gangsters

Madurai under the clutches of rowdies and gangsters:

The below viewpoint explains about the majority of Madurai and not all of the local politicians and not all the administrative officials are like the way it is explained below. There are definitely some honest people. Please read on ....

Today every officer and a local politician has to listen to rowdies, criminals and gangsters. Every decision is directed by these RCG (Rowdies, Criminals and Gangsters).

An administrative official is not able to do his duty, due to pressure from various entities in Madurai. Even the local politicians have to ask the RCGs, before doing anything good to people.

On one hand, the local politicians are selfish and try to accumulate their wealth. In another hand, the administrative officials need money to do their duty. On top of all these RCGs pressure these functionaries, for every execution of tasks.

In fact RCGs are one of the main cause of these corruption and costing behaviour.

Overall, who is affected?! None other than the Madurai people. Madurai's economy. Madurai's production...

We need leaders to crash all these inefficient elements. We need rules and orders to make things effective. We need punishments for everyone to abide by the rules of the government.

Problems in Madurai - Part II

Here are the problems I think Madurai has -

Attitude of the people...There is a very narrow thinking and never thinks of productivity. Trying to be lazy. Not doing the work properly. Very conservative...Priorities are trivial and not very productive....Never allow others to progress...

Illiteracy....Not much education...Less awareness among people...

Health issues...Due to lack of awareness and poverty, there are many health issues... have already discussed as a separate topic in previous articles...

Population....Too many births...Not being aware about the population control programmes...

Poverty...There is a huge percentage still under poveryt line..Not even having the basic things like - food, water and shelter!!

Government....Till now there had been never a very good government for making the city productive...

Corrupt Administration...Administration had been corrupt at most of the times and things...Never been a very clean administration. Every point and node is corrupt in the administrative system of the government...Even if the administration is clean, the politicians never leave them alone...

Rowdism, Gangism...Not much law and order is maintained...Many Robberies, rapes, Crimes. Every one tries to take weapons - Aruval(Sickle kind of knife)...Police is corrupt even...So there is not much law and order maintained....

Definitely not environmental friendly...

Brain Drain...All the best human resources move out of the city...to madras/chennai, bangalore, hyderabad, mumbai, America/abroad....

Very few people follow rules...Even take for example traffic rules...very less people follow it...

Amidst all these, many are lazy and not being productive...just laze around and being a load to the earth's gravity...

I am sometimes very angry about the above facts...Sometimes I become very pity to the people...sometimes feeling like doing something for these people, which I will eventually do...
Sometimes I become emotional and even shed tears thinking about the situation...
Anyway, whatever it is - we should do some action to get rid of these problems...We should knock these problems out and become a strong city and stand as an example to the state, country...and in fact to the world...

If this continues in every city, we will never become a developed nation, and always remain a third world country...

in fact, most of these issues are discussed in newmadurai.in and aimed to be solved in a long-term. Check out http://www.newmadurai.in

I will be talking about the potential advantages in Madurai, in my next article...

What a crazy idea?

Within 5 years timeframe, anybody who does not have a colour television will be given a colour television by the government!! This is what the ruling government respected Chief Minister Dr. Kalaignar Karunanidhi says to tamil nadu people.

In 5 years, there won't be anybody in tamil nadu without a color television, it seems. In total the budget seems to be 750 crores for this particular project.

What is the use? What a non-productive idea?! Will this make people work more and make the state and country gain more or even the people won't get prosperous? Instead people will become dumb...Will people understand what a flaw-filled policy this is?! Whose money is all these?! Who is approving this? Did People approve this? It's all tax money of the properly tax paying middle-class people.

Please think about it!! and open as many eyes as possible!

Watch this video for Respected Chief Minister's speech on this...

Tamil Nadu Political Joke

I happenned to see this tamil nadu political joke...

Enjoy watching the song between Dr. Kalaignar Karunanidhi and Dr. J Jayalalitha...
Take it lightly, if you are a party person!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssTdyW6YuDk&mode=related&search=