K Karthikeyan

Thiru M.K. Stalin can take great pride in having contested these elections on a platform of education, healthcare, and women's empowerment. Congratulations to TVK Chief Vijay for the remarkable performance in the Tamil Nadu elections.

In 2011 we used to take EVMs to strongrooms & leave them for CAPF to guard. Today we take EVMs to strongrooms & stay there to guard them from the CAPF.

Carl Sagan’s prediction about America, made 31 years ago.

Sequence of Events : > TMC appoints IPAC as its campaign management company > IPAC designs a brilliant campaign, BJP on the verge of being swept away > Sends ED and arrests IPAC director Vinesh Chandel > TMC ‘s campaign gets stalled, they have to restart in the middle of elections > Elections get over > Next day of elections, IPAC director gets bail from the lower court, ED doesn’t even oppose in the rarest of rare occurrences. This is how unfair elections are this country today, there is no level playing field. Even after all this if BJP loses, it will be the beginning of BJP’s end.

IMPORTANT: have said this before but worth reiterating: EXIT polls must EXIT unless they give sample size, raw data breakdown, complete methodology. And yes, disclose if they are also polling for a political party. A SERIOUS polling exercise which can be useful to understand voter behaviour mustn’t be reduced to a prime time LOTTERY with ZERO accountability. 🙏

காலை 8 மணிக்கு தபால் வாக்குகள் எண்ணிக்கை தொடங்கும் - வாக்கு எண்ணிக்கைக்கான வழிமுறைகள் வெளியீடு #TN

பெண்கள் இட ஒதுக்கீடு குற்றச்சாட்டு குறித்து விளக்கம் கொடுத்த முதல்வர்! #SunTV #MKStalin #TNElection2026

த.வெ.க தலைவர் விஜய்யின் விமர்சனங்களுக்கு பதிலளிக்காததற்கான காரணம்! #SunTV #MKStalin #TNElection2026

PM Modi's speech today was a gross violation of the Model Code of Conduct. Will @ECISVEEP take action?

Dear @narendramodi your party has the lowest percentage of women among all parties in Lok Sabha . Implement Women’s Reservation NOW based on 543 seats - what is stopping you? Jumlabazi Nahi Chalegi

From #AIIMS brick to #EPS photo, @Udhaystalin opened up on a range of issues in his first (exclusive) interview of this poll season to @sunnewstamil I caught up with @dmk_youthwing sec on the campaign trail. @arivalayam @mkstalin #aiadmk #BJP #modi youtu.be/GMvx73Fzsn8?si…

From disowning son @draramadoss & family to forecasting his chances in the #Tamilnadu Assembly polls, octogenarian @pmk founder @drramadoss opened up on a range of issues in this freewheeling chat with me. @sunnewstamil #DMK #AIADMK #MKStalin #EPS #BJP youtu.be/K9_6axnXaoo?si…

நெல்லுக்கு ஊக்கத்தொகை வழங்கக் கூடாது என்று மத்திய அரசு சொல்லவில்லை. முதல்வர் ஸ்டாலின் பொய் சொல்கிறார் என்று மத்திய நிதி அமைச்சர் நிர்மலா சீதாராமன் அவர்கள் கொந்தளித்திருக்கிறார். மத்திய நிதி அமைச்சகத்தால் அனுப்பப்பட்ட கடிதம் இங்கே பதிவிடப்பட்டுள்ளது. மத்திய நிதி அமைச்சர் பொறுப்பில் இருந்து கொண்டு இப்படிப் பொய் சொல்லலாமா நிர்மலா சீதாராமன் அவர்களே? "பொய் சொன்ன வாய்க்குப் போஜனம் கிடைக்காது" என்ற தமிழ்ப் பழமொழியைத் தங்களுக்கு நினைவூட்டுகிறேன். மத்திய அரசுதான் நெல்லுக்கு உரிய விலை தரவில்லை. கொடுக்கிற மகராசன்களை (மாநில அரசுகளை) தடுக்காமலாவது இருக்கலாம் அல்லவா? முழுப் பூசணிக்காயை இலைச் சோற்றில் மறைக்கும் முயற்சியில் ஈடுபட்டால், நீங்கள் அம்பலப்பட்டுத்தான் போவீர்கள்.

Statement on behalf of the Supreme National Security Council of the Islamic Republic of Iran:

To the people of the United States of America

France Refuses Rafale Source Codes to India, Triggering Major Blow to New Delhi’s Airpower Independence Strategy - Defence Security Asia. As one French report stated unequivocally, “India will not receive sensitive source codes for Rafale’s RBE2 radar and SPECTRA electronic warfare suite, with France retaining control over core software despite technology transfer and local production cooperation,” a position that underscores Paris’s intent to safeguard proprietary software sovereignty. For any meaningful upgrade, we’re left pleading with Dassault—while opening the purse wide and paying a premium every time. MoD🤡🤡 share.google/lgsJbO2X8aJuxh…

China supplies the magnets inside the Arrow interceptor that defends Tel Aviv. China supplies the BeiDou satellite navigation inside the Fattah-2 missile that attacks Tel Aviv. The same country made the sword and the shield. And today, that country is hosting the diplomat who wants to broker peace between the people swinging the sword and the people holding the shield. This is not an abstraction. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute confirmed two weeks ago that US interceptor missiles, including Patriot, THAAD, Arrow, and David’s Sling, depend on Chinese-processed rare earth elements for the neodymium and samarium-cobalt magnets that steer their guidance systems, power their actuators, and control their seekers. China controls 90 percent of the global rare earth supply chain. The United States is 100 percent net-import reliant for finished rare earth magnets. West Point’s Modern War Institute called this “a shot across the bow of the US defense industrial base.” There is no substitute. There is no stockpile. There is no domestic capacity that can scale in less than a decade. Now hold that dependency in one hand. In the other, hold the verified fact that Iranian missiles, including the Fattah-2 hypersonic, the Kheibar Shekan, the Emad, and every Shahed drone in the current barrage, navigate using China’s BeiDou-3 encrypted military satellite signals, are fuelled by Chinese ammonium perchlorate propellant, contain Chinese sensors, semiconductors, and voltage converters, and are aimed using imagery from Russia’s Khayyam satellite and China’s Jilin-1 constellation. The Arrow interceptor that Israel fires to protect Haifa contains Chinese magnets. The Fattah-2 that Iran fires to destroy Haifa contains Chinese navigation. Both weapons are manufactured using Chinese supply chains. Both are being depleted simultaneously. And the faster they are depleted, the more leverage China accumulates, because China is the only country that can resupply both sides and the only country that can cut off both sides. RUSI reports that Israel has expended 122 of 150 Arrow 2/3 interceptors and 135 of 250 David’s Sling missiles. Each interceptor that is fired and cannot be replaced because China controls the magnet supply chain represents a permanent reduction in Israeli defensive capability. Each Iranian missile that is fired and cannot be replaced because Israeli strikes have hit the factories represents a permanent reduction in Iranian offensive capability. Both arsenals are shrinking toward zero. The country that manufactured the components inside both arsenals is the country hosting peace talks in Beijing right now. This is not irony. This is architecture. China positioned itself as the indispensable supplier to every party in this conflict before the first missile was fired. It sells rare earths to the US defence industrial base. It sells navigation data and propellant precursors to the IRGC. It buys 80 percent of Iran’s oil exports. It holds the rare earth leverage that Bessent needs released to build more interceptors. And today, it is sitting across the table from Pakistan’s foreign minister discussing whether to become the guarantor of a peace deal that would resolve the war its supply chains are sustaining on both sides. The war will end when the weapons run out or when the supplier decides it should. Both paths lead to Beijing. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

Not just oil, gas, fertilizers but other critical byproducts too are affected. Important piece by @Jayati1609

I used Claude AI's Opus 4.6 to Score both DMK and ADMK TN 2026 manifestos across 50 dimensions — welfare, AI, economy, federalism, everything. One is a governance blueprint. One is a wishlist. DMK 423 / ADMK 255 out of 500. claude.ai/public/artifac…