2009 Election Results

Election 2009 Results

      Alliance                              Win                          Lead                    Seat Change

UPA	262	0	80
NDA	157	0	-14
Third Front	67	0	-36
Other Parties	30	0	7
Fourth Front	27	0	-37

Karunanidhi’s ‘final request’ to Centre

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu will on Friday make a “final request” to the Centre to save Sri Lankan Tamils.

Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi will move a resolution titled ‘In Sri Lanka, the Tamil race is being wiped out – a final request to the Indian government,’ after the approval of Speaker R. Avudaiappan and the House, according to a press release from the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. The context, according to a senior DMK leader, was the continued killings of Tamils in the name of the war against LTTE.

While the DMK is aware that India has only a limited role in bringing the war in another sovereign country to an end, it believes that the Centre is not doing enough to protect the Tamils.