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- “If the government truly cared about farmers, it should have convened an all-party meeting. The TVK government is adopting a new technique to deal with TN’s issues.” – Udhayanidhi Stalin
- “There is no problem with changing the names of schemes; what matters is that the schemes continue. Schemes that people value should continue regardless of which party is in power.” – DMDK MLA Premalatha Vijayakant (in the Assembly)
- The Chennai High Court has issued a strong directive to the police to immediately register an FIR if customers are charged extra for liquor.
- “The CM keeps warning at every meeting that no one who accepts bribes can remain in the Cabinet. Not a single MLA or minister has taken even one rupee as a bribe in any department.” – Minister Aadhav Arjuna
- “If the Tamil Nadu CM faces any humiliation while visiting Karnataka, the entire state of TN will rise in protest.” – Premalatha
- “Udhayanidhi is destroying the movement founded by Anna with obscene language. Remarks that demean women are unacceptable.” – Minister Aadhav
- “Crippling the opposition is condemnable. Expressing opinions is a democratic right. Democracy is upheld by responding to opinions with counter-opinions, not by making arrests. Differences of opinion should not be dealt with through arrests.” – Premalatha
- “Avoiding the imprisonment of Udhayanidhi would enhance the ruling party’s credibility.” – Thirumavalavan
- “Why is CM Vijay showing more urgency regarding the arrest operation than he did regarding the Cauvery river water issue?” – Seeman
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Exercising your franchise made interesting by Twitter
March 18, 2016
Twitter has come up with something to make voters feel proud of having exercised their franchise. In a first-of-its-kind, the social networking giant will launch an exclusive “emoji”, a digital image, on the counting day of Tamil Nadu Assembly elections. It is expected to be a hand symbol showing “I voted”.
Twitter India Head Raheel Khursheed met Chief Electoral Officer Rajesh Lakhoni and told him that the design of the emoji was in the process of being developed. The social network platform has come up with various features to make tweeting interesting for its users who vote. He shared Twitter’s plans to reach people effectively on the day of the poll and counting.
Khursheed said new tools have been devised to enable lengthy election related videos to be uploaded. Rajesh Lakhoni said usually only 30-50 second duration videos could be uploaded on Twitter. This new feature was launched for the EC.
Other features include, sending those who have voted a digital signature of their favourite celebrity involved in the poll campaign, sending reminders on May 16 to vote to all the users (followers) of TN elections App and whoever tweets with the hash tag #TN100%.
“True to our motto of 100 per cent honesty and 100 per cent voting, this venture will attract a wide spectrum of people towards voting”, he added.
Caption : Tamil Nadu Chief Electoral Officer Rajesh Lakhoni explains about TN elections’ App to Twitter India Head Raheel Khursheed for the launch of emoji
