"Thank you to the Election Commission of India and to those who stood with us. Let the light keep spreading", Kamal Haasan added as his party has been hoping to have a political breakthrough.

He also had served as the president of the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee from 2009 to 2013 following which he exited from the Congress party and joined GK Vasan's Tamil Maanila Congress.

BJP-RSS Ideologue S Gurumurthy has now suggested the ruling faction that ADMK must accept and align with Sasikala to defeat DMK.

Vijayabaskar said that the research using the Covishield and Covaxin in the government hospitals in Tamil Nadu showed no adverse effects to any of the people. 

Both the rival national parties of Congress and BJP have now stood in the same line of using the Pongal festival to give them a crucial push in the state. 

The schools will be resumed for classes 10 and 12 from January 19 with the view of the welfare of these students to prepare for the upcoming board exams. 

Senior party leaders have been paying tribute to the deceased leader and expressing their condolences to the family of the deceased. 

Along with the resumption of classes for 10 and 12, the government has also permitted the schools to resume the hostels for these students from January 19.

Refusing to endorse Edappadi Palaniswami as the CM candidate, the BJP leaders had been pressing that Palaniswami is the CM candidate for ADMK and not for the alliance.

His statement has come as his bid to appeal to his fans not to protest and put him in deep pain through their calls of urging him to enter politics.