Monday, March 10. 2008
Indian Hockey Team failed to Qualify for the Olympics
As I was reading the Newspaper this morning, one news that was hogging the limelight was our Hockey Team's exit from the Olympics Qualifier. I saw that the Coach Carvalho has submitted his resignation taking ownership for the exit, his 11 months term came to a premature end because of this failure. I also saw some ex-players asking KPS Gill, President, IHF to resign owning up responsibility for the same. Looking at this, thoughts just ran across my mind and I thought I can vent the same here.
As a Project Manager, I also manage teams and I have to fight against lot of odds and deliver projects, I am compelled to draw out a comparison between my team and a sports team. When a project comes to my organisation, it is assigned to a Project Manager and he then will have to understand the project and work with the concerned functional team to get the team he needs for the project and also the infrastructure that is needed to execute the same. Once this happens, its the PM's responsibility to get the project delivered successfully. This could mean that he has to understand the team dynamics, take care of their aspirations, take care of their inclusions, take care of the value they provide to the team, keep the customer informed, keep the management informed and asking for help, etc.
In this process, if the management fails to provide the necessary infrastructure, they are to be blamed for the project failure. Incase the PM feels that the team member is not good enough then it would be his responsibility to discipline, coach, mentor and get the team member contribute. Even after all this the team member fails, then he should not hesitate to show the doors for the team member. Incase he has done all these and still the team fails, the blame should be on the team or rather the facilitator of these team members.
If the PM gets the right infrastructure and the team and still is not able to motivate the team to give its best performance, then the PM should take the responsibility and should be axed.
Drawing parallel to Indian hockey, first and foremost I feel that it is too premature to ask for the head of the Coach, Captain, President etc. This has to be completely analysed and we have to diagnose what went wrong and where did it go wrong and fix the problem. Lets not jump to any conclusion, this is the same team which won the Asia Cup, just six months back and their performance was appreciated by everyone. Nothing has changed in the Six months time, same coach, captain, administrators etc. So lets be patient, its very easy to blame someone, we have to understand the issues and concerns that hampered a performing team. I am sure that no one wants to be a part of a losing team. That to when they are representing the nation, there would be lot of spirit.
Looking at it from a different angle, we are becoming too sentimental, this has become an issue just because we have always qualified for the Olympics since 1928. So leaving out the sentiments, we need to look at it progressively. We are an Eight Time Olympic champion team, what happened to the quality of our game. This could happen for two reasons, One, We are playing good hockey but our opponents are playing even better, Two, our quality has really gone bad. I strongly feel that the second one is not true.
Analysing the first point more, the eight gold medals that we have won have predominantly been on grass and tradiitionally this is the turf that we have been playing our hockey, where our artistic dribbling helps in winning matches. But when Hockey moved to Astro turf, it became more of a power and speed game, which we are not really good at. Does this mean that we are not good at adapting to changes ? I would not say so. This problem is something that you see in Cricket too, we have been traditionally depending on spin bowling and we never really used to have any pace bowlers, but with shorter versions of the game becoming largely popular, spin bowling lost its importance and it took sometime for our team to come to terms and now you see we are world beaters and we have genuine speedsters in the team.
But getting the same done in Hockey is not as easy as we did in Cricket. First and foremost the lack of sponsors, today parents encourage their children to play Cricket and Tennis, because of the money that is involved in the sport. So all the corporate houses should come forward to encourage the people who take up hockey, as it is our national game, there has to be lot more interest in that sport. Why is the money so important for hockey, because, traditionally we have been getting our hockey players from the regions of Chotta Nagpur, Interior Karnataka, North Eastern States, Punjab. I am not sure if these places do boast of an Astro turf ground. There players traditionally play on normal ground with bare foot, etc. and once they become national players will have to start playing in Astro Turf and it does take a while for them to get accustomed to that before which they are already written off. So we need to bring up some Astro Turf Stadiums and encourage people to play in these grounds, so that they can mould their game according to the International grounds right from the begining of their careers.
Sometimes it helps for us to think a little away from tradition, the ex players who are now being the coach have also been pracititioners of the traditional gameplay that we have been playing. May be it helps to hire a coach from Australia or Netherlands it helps. For some reason the IT jobs are being moved from US to India, the same way lets get the best person for the job.
You may think what have I got to do with it, you can do, you have a commitment to the National game, Watch Hockey when it is telecasted in Television, the more we see, the more we can help the game get sponsorship. Why do you think Cricket has so much, it is just because you and I follow the game.
Tuesday, March 4. 2008
Political Scenario in Tamil Nadu
Its been quite sometime since I wrote something about politics, now with Lok Sabha Elections being imminent, I thought I could share my thoughts. Very populistic Railway and Finance budgets this year, this probably would make Congress popular among people. With memories being very short, its a good ploy by the government to win some popular votes. Manmohan Singh's government need to be given credit too for their performance. With the communists feeling very uncomfortable with Nuke deal and also their politics is also losing ground as they have aligned with Congress and for years they have been thriving in politics only by playing it against Congress. BJP also is upbeat after its victory in Gujarat and also having put a positive step in all the states to sort out all the faction issues.
Coming to Tamil Nadu politics, UPA is a grand alliance and even though everyone has been through discomfort, for want of clinging to power, they have adjusted with each other uncomfortably. So in all likelihood there may be some realignment for this election. Based on the events happening I feel that Congress and PMK might be feeling betrayed by DMK for not having being given a place in the TamilNadu Ministry. PMK stayed back in the alliance for the simple reason that Dr. Anbumani's place in the Central Government will need to be given up. Congress was not able to show their displeasure as their Central Government would be under threat if they do so. On the other hand ADMK does not have much to lose as they dont have anyone apart from MDMK.
With Captain Vijaykanth's DMDK doing well in wooing the youngsters and the general voters towards them, in all likelihood I feel that there would be realignments in the State politics. In the interest of the Minority Government that is in place in Tamil Nadu, DMK would not want to lose any of its partners, but they also know that they would not have the same negotiating power, if they dont repeat the same performance as last time, which is winning all the forty seats, which I feel is very difficult. Many would be surprised about Sarath's party, though I feel that he would be happy to ensure that he gets the caste votes that he is trying to get, but looks like he is trying to get the youth on his side. These votes are the ones that is solidly behind Vijaykanth, and now DMK's youth conference, ADMK's youth pasarais are also the efforts to get the same votes. Some even feel that it is DMK's gameplan to make Sarathkumar an alternative to Vijaykanth. In this background Congress leader Arunkumar's meeting with Vijaykanth aboard a plane boars a lot of significance.
So, I strongly feel that Tamil Nadu would see a three way contest with DMK / DPI / Communist Parties forming one alliance and ADMK / PMK / and may be BJP forming the second alliance and third alliance would be formed with Vijaykanth / Congress / MDMK / Sarath and incase Marans' patch up work does not work, they may also align with this alliance. Vijaykanth and MDMK may come together because of a caste equation. Congress is suffocated with both the Dravidian parties as they have never been respected as a significant partner, thats the reason Congress wants to go to Vijaykanth to get some respect and probably a share in the government incase they win, but I feel that they would be disappointed as they may only end up being a secondary partner. Anyway it just turns out to be very interesting for someone who is following all these.
Last but not the least you can see PMK is trying to come out of the Caste politics and trying to get a larger vote base by being a very vocal supporter of Tamil Language usage, infact they have been doing a great job through their channel Makkal TV. Best wishes for them.
Before I close, just wanted to conclude with a news item I read this morning that Rahul Gandhi has hired ' Dale Carnegie Management Consultants to train the Congress youth members, looks like a step in the right direction.
India Wins Commonwealth Bank Series
Dismal performance, this is what I could say about how Australia played today in the Second final of the Commonwealth Bank series. It was a welcome change to see our opponents being in this kind of situation, as someone following cricket very closely, I remember only India being in the kind of situation Australia was in today. As I was down with fever I was at home, so I had the oppurtunity to watch the entire match, ever since the match fixing episode came up, somehow I have been losing interest in cricket, but today I forced myself to see this match and I was not disappointed.
Always used to some brilliant individual performances and failing to win matches, nowadays its welcome relief to find our team playing well as a team. Looking back at this series, I cannot think of one individual who can be given credit for this victory. Its really nice to see that the team is not dependent on any individual. In each and every match one player or the other has clicked. Its very nice to see experiements being done and working well. Piyush Chawla, who did not play any match, directly played in both the finals, may be it was a ploy to hide him from the Aussies, but it worked quite well. When Ishant was not well for the second finals, there was not single negative comment that he would be missed, imagine the days when Tendulkar or Dravid or Ganguly missed a match. Also we have to remember that Ishant has been the spearhead of the Indian bowling in the series in Australia. Fortunately we did not miss him, the other guys took up the responsibilities on their shoulders. Due credit has to be given to the Selectors, having selected this young team and also to Dhoni, for having backed up all these guys very well. Looks like Indian cricket is heading towards the right direction, with U-19 World cup also with us, looks like we now have a good bench strength, once boasted by the mighty Australians.
Does it prove that is good to have a bunch of average people, who would complement each other in the team and win as a team, rather than having a couple of Superstars???
Tuesday, July 11. 2006
Tuesday’s Terror in the Business Capital - Mumbai
Sad that there was a serial blast in Mumbai and more than 150 people were killed in the same, the first question that strikes us is what these Terrorists gain by killing innocent people?
Let us understand what Terrorism means, according to James M. Poland, professor of criminal justice at California State University, Sacramento, "Terrorism is the premeditated, deliberate, systematic murder, mayhem, and threatening of the innocent to create fear and intimidation in order to gain a political or tactical advantage, usually to influence an audience." According to me this is the most apt definition for that word.
Terrorists just want to create a fear in the minds of individuals so that they will abstain from using certain services, visiting few places, etc. by which they will slow down the growth by bringing the complete government machinery to a grinding halt.
Let us take the example of Suryanarayanan, the Indian Engineer killed in
Our media also helped the cause by repeatedly showing that in their channels, profiling him, showing his crying wife, mother, children, again and again. There would be so many mothers and wives of people working in
So, all the terror attacks will have an objective behind them, but the bottom line is to create scare in the mind of the commoner. Only way to overcome this is to feel sorry for the people who lost their lives, may be do whatever help we can do for them and ignore these attacks, and get going with our business without changing any of our plans because of these attacks.
If we do this for sometime, naturally terrorism will automatically stop, as they will see that there is no effect on the people. When I am writing this article Sensex is up by 80 points, I really do not know if it is just because of InfoSys results, but anyway even though it’s a little premature, hats off to Mumbai, for not getting affected and continuing with business. Let’s support them so they can get back to normal life at the earliest, so the Terror does not last.
Thursday, June 22. 2006
Is Indian IT getting too Expensive ?
The Economic Times Online
Printed from economictimes.indiatimes.com
Is Indian IT getting too expensive?
MINI JOSEPH TEJASWI, RAGHAVENDRA R AND SRIKALA BHASHYAM
Early this year, SAP CEO Henning Kagermann went on record stating India was getting expensive. He said, “We have decided to hire only a certain number there (India) and then commence to look around for other locations.” Last month, Apple shut down its newly commenced Bangalore operations without giving any reasons. But analysts believe the reasons had to do with costs. On Wednesday, Pervasive Software decided to call it quits, saying it is unable to cope with the increasing costs in a hot market like Bangalore .
Analysts told that since middle and senior management cadre accounts for 30% of an organisation, MNCs are increasingly finding India an expensive resource base. However, the story even two years ago was pretty different. Companies could hire a CEO for Rs 30-40 lakh while the same professional in the US carried a price tag of $200,000 |
The salary factor
While at the entry level, Indian engineers still provide significant cost savings, the mid and senior management professionals are proving to be very expensive for many. While in the US, a software professional in the mid managerial level (over 5 years experience ) costs around $70,000 (around Rs 31.50 lakh), in India , a manager’s pay packet at Rs 25 lakh is not much lower.
And this difference narrows further as the manager adds years to his career. According to StantonChase International’s senior consultant , G C Jayaprakash, the professionals in the 10-15 years category are giving even bigger worries to hirers. While a techie with 10-15 years’ experience costs around $100,000-150 ,000 (around Rs 45-67 lakh) in the US, he/she is already in the Rs 1 crore bracket in India.
Analysts told that since middle and senior management cadre accounts for 30% of an organisation, MNCs are increasingly finding India an expensive resource base. However, the story even two years ago was pretty different. Companies could hire a CEO for Rs 30-40 lakh while the same professional in the US carried a price tag of $200,000.
While the salary levels in the US have moved up gradually, the bi-annual inc re m e n t s coupled with frequent jobhopping by senior management prof e s s i o n a l s have taken pay packets to dizzy heights in India . In fact, no techie with 10-15 years experience is seen to be willing to meet a prospective employer if the salary is not above Rs 1.5-2 crore.
While the cost of acquisition of talent has gone up both for Indian and MNC firms, the MNCs are at a further disadvantage because they hire more mid and senior management professionals. A project manager in an Indian company typically manages a team of up to 400-500 professionals, but in MNCs, he does not manage more than 100. As a result, the need for high cost managers is higher in an MNC firm.
Prices hit tech boom era levels
Frances Karamouzis, vice president (research), Gartner Inc, says salaries have been going up sharply since 2004. “Indian professionals became costlier by 10-15 % in 2004 and that level of increase continued through the next calendar.
It is likely to go up in the coming years as well. India’s low cost advantage is slowly diminishing and the talent pool is depleting. Global buyers are questioning India’s original selling points. Under such a scenario, the country needs to change its existing positioning by playing the game of value addition, quality and delivery capabilities,’’ she says.
According to Avinash Vashistha, chairman and CEO of Virginia-based globalisation services and financial and market advisory firm, Tholons Inc: “Current price points are touching the all-time high levels of 2000. It’s the pure economics of demand and supply. The demand is obviously higher than the existing supply capabilities , and that puts an inflationary pressure on pricing .’
Emerging alternatives
These cost increases in India are compelling many to look at alternative locations like Eastern Europe, Russia, Vietnam and East Asia. Most of these countries have not seen the kind of salary increases India has. Cost of high-end services in India are of particular concern because they tend to increase faster because of the lower talent base.
Third party advantage
Some feel that third party operators may be at a slight advantage over captive business units, except perhaps for big cash-rich players like an IBM or Oracle. Third-party players are seen to do more with less. Because, by working for multiple clients, they get economies of scale. “Companies operating in different centres within the country normally work on common pay scales. So, cost is not a differentiator . Those working with a captive model with less than 1,000 people cannot be viable ,’’ says Mohan Sekhar, chief delivery officer of igate global solutions.
Companies like Symphony have mastered the art of doing high-end engineering work for their worldwide clients in India. “In 2000-2002 , 95% of all commercial software work in India were done by captives. We believe that within the next two years, this is going to be less than 50%. Much of the wage inflation in Bangalore is due to an increasing number of promotions that is presently happening in companies,’’ says Gordon Brooks, CEO of Symphony Services.
These salary differences are much narrower at the mid and senior levels
Mid level software professional (over 5 years experience):
US: $70,000 (around Rs 31.50 lakh) India: $56,000 (around Rs 25 lakh) The latter gets more expensive as he adds years to his career.
Senior professionals (10-15 years experience):
US: $100,000-150 ,000 (around Rs 45-67 lakh) India: over $222,222 (Rs 1 crore)
Outsourcing contenders
There are 20 big, small and key outsourcing destinations — India, The Philippines, Russia, Canada, Ireland, Singapore, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, Costa Rica, China, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Of these, the Philippines, Russia, Vietnam and some East European countries could give Indian players a good run for their money, say analysts.
Monday, June 19. 2006
Chikungaya - Viral Fever
Thirty two years after its last outbreak in
Please read below the detailed health advisory and more importantly the "Precautions to be Taken":
An outbreak of chikungunya with interspersed cases of dengue fever has been reported in several Indian states. Affected areas include Andhra Pradesh.
In all, over 31,000 cases have been reported from 209 villages since December 2005 but the latest figures show over 30,000 cases in Andhra (Tirupati is the worst hit); over 70,000 in Karnataka (17,000 cases in
The symptoms of dengue and chikungunya can be similar, and both are spread by mosquitoes. The outbreak is attributed to increased mosquito breeding. Officials are investigating the extent of the problem and implementing measures to bring it under control.
A large chikungunya outbreak has been occurring in the
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Chikungunya is a viral disease transmitted via mosquito bites. It occurs more frequently during the rainy season when the density of mosquitoes is higher than usual. It cannot pass from person to person.
The incubation time is four to seven days, after which a patient develops a sudden fever that last from two to five days. In addition to fever, severe joint pain is one of the disease's main symptoms. In fact, the name chikungunya comes from the Swahili word meaning "that which contorts or bends up" - infected people often temporarily assume a stooped posture due to associated pain. Pain is especially common in the knees, ankles, small joints (especially in hands and feet) and any previously injured joint.
Other common symptoms are a rash, particularly on the limbs and torso, and headache. Patients may become nauseous, vomit, and show other general 'flu-like' symptoms. Less common symptoms can include redness in the eyes and unusual sensitivity to light (photophobia).
Chikungunya is not traditionally considered a fatal disease, though it can weaken the immune system of an infected person and thus allow the patient to become infected with other diseases more easily.
There is no specific cure for the disease. The treatment consists mainly of rest, and medicine or therapies that will reduce pain and discomfort. Recovery takes several weeks and is characterized by an intense tiredness and difficulty concentrating. The joint pains can last for several months.
As there is no vaccine and preventive medication, preventing mosquito bites is the only way to prevent Chikungunya.
Travelers to state of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra & Karnataka should follow all the relevant precautions but the precautions are not restricted to these specific states or travelling employees and visitors.
Prevent bites while outdoors:
• Use insect repellent on exposed skin surfaces when outdoors, particularly during the day.
• Stay in hotels, resorts that are well screened or air-conditioned and that take measures to reduce the mosquito population, where possible.
• Wear light-colored clothing that covers most of the body (long sleeves and long pants), weather permitting.
• Use an insect repellent containing DEET (DEET is the common name for N, N-diethyl-m-toluamide, which is the active ingredient in the most widely used insect repellents applied to the skin). Adults and children over two months old can safely use preparations containing up to 35% DEET. The higher the concentration, the longer it repels. Reapply after swimming or excessive sweating. Note that, although there are repellents available with more than 35% DEET, the duration of protection does not increase proportionately to the DEET concentration.
Approximate duration of action:
• 10% DEET: 1-3 hrs
• 23% DEET: 4-6hrs
• 35% DEET: 6-8 hrs
• 99% DEET: 10-12 Hrs
Note:
The duration of action of prolonged acting preparations such as "Ultrathon" and "Sawyer Controlled Release Deet" is not proportional to concentration of DEET.
It is possible to protect yourself from insects and the sun at the same time. Apply sunscreen first, and follow with insect repellent. Note that the combined use of repellent and sunblock appears to reduce the efficacy of the sunblock by up to 33%. Reapply sunblock more often and/or use a higher SPF when using in conjunction with insect repellent.
• Soak or spray your clothes with the insecticide permethrin. (Do not apply permethrin directly to the skin.)
• Reduce Aedes breeding sites by emptying standing water that may have collected in containers (e.g., uncovered barrels, flower vases, or cisterns) and either overturning the vessels or covering the opening.
• If illness develops, stay under a mosquito net or indoors to limit mosquito bites and to avoid further spread of infection.
Prevent bites while you are indoors or asleep:
• Make sure that there is fly-wire (mosquito netting) on all of your windows.
• Use "knock-down" insect spray to kill mosquitoes in your room.
• Use mosquito coils or electric insecticide vaporizers if mosquitoes can get into your room.
• Note that air-conditioning also repels mosquitoes.
• Consider using a bed net soaked in or sprayed with permethrin / pyrethrin
Reduce mosquito breeding grounds
This advice is more relevant if you are living permanently in a particular area. Mosquitoes breed in stagnant water and travel less than 500 yards from their hatching site to feed.
• Drain stagnant water from pot plants, drains, old tins, old tires, etc.
• Have local authorities spray walls with residual insecticides.
• Encourage local authorities to use a "fog" to kill adult mosquitoes and employ a larvicide to eradicate mosquito larvae.
Tuesday, May 16. 2006
Rice @ Rs.2/kg, who will pay the rest ?
Good to see Dr. M. Karunanidhi assuming becoming the Chief Minister for the fifth time and also Mr. Stalin becoming the Minister for Local Administration. As per their poll promise on the first day of office itself, reduced the price of rice to Rs.2/kg, to come in effect from 3 June 2006, which has no relevance apart from being the Birthday of our Chief Minister. Also another government order that was passed was to waive the loans of farmers in Co-operative Banks, again the people of Tamil Nadu were pleased that they kept up their promise on day one.
Reducing the price of rice to Rs.2/kg is going to cost the Government Rs.550 crores and loan waiver is going to cost another Rs.6668 Crores, so where would the money come from for all these, What schemes are there to bring revenue to the government and if the present government keeps up all its promises there will only be expenditures on freebies.
Eventually how will the Government get money, that will be from Taxes, we will get rice for Rs.2/kg but other items will become more dearer, for pleasing one section of population and to be in power, the entire Tamil Nadu population is going to suffer. We are now like the tortoise in a cooking vessel, these schemes are like initial lukewarm temperature, which we will enjoy, but as time goes on the temperature goes up we are going to perish. Our Finance Minister who said big NO to all the freebies being offered by various state governments, has supported this during his initial campaign, why this double standard.
Friday, May 12. 2006
Battle for the State - Tamil Nadu
Now with the dust settling down on the State Elections and winners and losers having been identified, let us look into what happened and what would happen in the political scene.
ADMK lost this election, this is what we can rather than saying the DMK won the election, unless in the previous elections where the opposition would be generally wiped out, inspite of the 70% polling, the victory margins where very less in the most of the constituencies. So, this certainly is not a negative vote against the ADMK Government. So, I would say that this is a vote to end the Autocratic rule of the previous government does not really has any meaning at all.
Everyone claim that DMK Manifesto is the hero of the elections, but I would rather say that people did not really beleive the same and there was only a cautious approach to the manifesto and it was just beleived as a lottery, if we get fine, otherwise no big deal, so even if the promises are not kept, people would not bother.
Till the election campaign started, ADMK did have an edge on various counts like communal violence, removal of rowdy elements, free cycle scheme etc. There was a scare in the DMK camp, DMK who were averse to coalition politics, created an issue when Union Minister E.V.K.S. Elangovan talked about coalition politics. Then suddenly during seat sharing DMK was suddenly talking about coalition politics and infact very smartly took only 129 seats, in the kind of political scenario that was in the state, even the DMK would not have beleived that it can take individual majority. This was done to encourage the coalition party workers who now see that they can be a part of the government. Even Dr. Kalaignar mentioned this as Sacrifice of DMK, but I would rather say this is a masterstroke of a seasoned politician. So he got the poll alliance arithmetic to his advantage.
Then when DMK manifesto was released with all the freebies, there promises were not taken very seriously by the people till the day, Dr. J. Jayalalitha reacted to it by offering 10kg of free rice. Any leader should not and cannot react in any situation, I still dont understand why this basic characteristic of a leader was not followed by the leader of ADMK. Till that time the ADMK camp was only telling that whatever DMK promised is not givable, but from that day they started saying that it is possible by ADMK but not by DMK, this is where DMK started getting the edge.
Now, with freebies being offered by both sides, the people were looking at the credibility of keeping promises by both sides, thats where I would say that the star campaigner of this election our Finance Minister Mr.P. Chidambaram, turned the tides towards the DMK Alliance, he vouched on behalf of the DMK manifesto, which gave the people, centre's commitment for DMK's manifesto, as they thought he is the one who has to give the money for all the schemes. So probability of winning the lottery on the DMK side increased and tilted the scales slightly in favour of the DMK alliance.
ADMK alliance should have refrained from reacting to DMK's freebies and had it stuck to its own orinigal manifesto, it could have easily pooh poohed the same. Also, it could have easily campaigned against the Finance Minister also, as sometime back he had come very hardly on the state governments freebies in variosu states as affecting the country's economy, I still fail to understand what the ADMK campaign managers were doing?
Then, DMK's media power with Sun TV really being the window of the Tamil Nadu to the whole world added to ADMK's woes. Personally speaking, all other issues like Family politics, Stalin Succession, Dayanidhi's corruption, Amma's high handedness, Anti incumbency were certainly a non issue in this election.
But both DMK and ADMK has to watch out for another emerging star of this election Captain Vijaykanth, he certainly would be a power to reckon with in the future elections, his vote share of 8% is only behind that of ADMK and DMK, and he contesting is Vridachalam, eventhough looked like cinematic stunt, fought and won in the enemies territory itself all by himself. Hats off to the Captain, in all probability looks like a future CM of our state to me. Generally considered having a soft corner towards the Congress, there may be a sitution with Vijaykanth and Congress fighting the polls together with other small parties. Captain being a MLA now will be in political news and couple of socially aware movies may as well make the people feel like he might be their crusader from Darvidian politics.
Lastly, lets congratulate Dr. Kalaignar on becoming the CM for the fifth time, but will he be in office for five years, there could be a possibility that he might resign showing his age or health as reason after an year and give the mantle of ruling the state to a younger generation leader and give them four years time to prove and make that leader acceptable to the public and party.
Also, there can be a change in the political scenario when the next parliament election comes as ADMK also would be aware of the powerful alliance arithmetic, this may give some uneasiness to the state government also, lets wait and watch, there is going to be a lot of tamashas, with Congress calling the shots in State government and DMK calling the shots in the Central government.
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