Aranganayagam had served as the Minister of Education in the sixth assembly and he also had served as the Minister of Education in the first Jayalalithaa's cabinet from 1991 to 1996.

The manhunt to detain the assailants has been launched and the police have been securing the evidence in the vicinities of the crime scene. 

The government has faced severe objections over operating the alcohol shops amid the COVID-19 second wave, post which it has announced to invoke the token system. 

According to the state health department, Tamil Nadu has reported 7,987 fresh COVID-19 cases on Thursday, the highest single-day rise recorded by the state since the outbreak.

After the incident had sparked controversy, the Tamil Nadu Highways Department has issued a statement in which it had advocated for Grand Western Trunk Road.

ADMK leaders Edappadi Palaniswami and Panneerselvam had jointly issued a statement in which they had notified about the expulsion of the ADMK leaders.

Sasikala believes that ADMK would face a drastic defeat in the Tamil Nadu assembly polls and she thinks that the party would come under her after the current leaders lose their strongholds in the election.

The latest demand from the PMK leader has come when Tamil Nadu has entered into the ambit of the fresh set of COVID-19 restrictions on Saturday. 

The development has sparked fresh controversy and several AMMK leaders had slammed the ADMK leaders for intentionally removing Sasikala's name from the voters' list. 

The poster read that ADMK Minister and constituency's MLA Vellamandi Natarajan has been missing for the last five years.