October 17, 2011
Voting in elections to the Chennai Corporation council on October 17 was slow and steady at most booths in the Mylapore neighbourhood. When the booths opened at 7 a.m. the flow of voters was thin but security was high. The [...]
October 15, 2011
Lakshmi Suresh, the BJP candidate for ward 124, which is reserved for women and covers the heart of Mylapore aims to cover over 1000 families in the Slum Board tenements of Palakkuma Nagar, behind the Mylapore Club on Friday evening. [...]
October 8, 2011
Campaigning for elections to the Corporation Council due on October 17 in the city is slowly gaining momentum. This past week, candidates of political parties and independents who have chosen to throw their hat in the ring have started door-to-door [...]
May 14, 2011
AIADMK candidate R. Rajalakshmi is the MLA ( Member of Legislative Assembly) of Mylapore. She won the election getting 80,063 votes. Her nearest rival was the Congress (I) candidate, K V Thangkabalu who got 50,859 votes. The margin of victory [...]
April 14, 2011
Polling was brisk in the morning in most parts of Mylapore on Election day (April 13) as people tried to escape from the summer heat. With temperatures in the 34/35 degrees range, many people decided to get to the polling [...]
April 12, 2011
EVMs, cameras, computers and files and all accessories required on election day ( April 13) were unloaded and put in place at all the polling booths in the Mylapore area. It was done under strong security. But all this was [...]
April 12, 2011
Here is what leading candidates contesting in the Mylapore constituency are promising the electorate. These points have been gleaned from speeches, interviews and printed sources. Most of them have not focussed on local issues. K. V. Thangkabalu, Congress (I) – [...]
April 12, 2011
AIADMK leader J. Jayalalithaa campaigned in the heart of Mylapore on Sunday afternoon. As part of her whirlwind tour of the city after her tour of the state, Jayalalithaa spoke to a large crowd at the Mangollai junction on East [...]
April 7, 2011
Candidates contesting the State elections in Mylapore constituency did not have much to say on what they would do for Mylapore at a face-to-face meeting between them and Mylaporeans held on Sunday, April 3. Organised by Rajaji Centre for Public [...]
