Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami on Saturday flayed DMK and its alliance partners for trying to confuse people on the National Population Register and said it was only a census and not to be bracketed with National Register of Citizens. He recalled that that the census exercise was last done in 2011 during the UPA regime when Manmohan Singh was Prime Minister.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami on Thursday announced trifurcating the large Vellore district into three and asserted his government's commitment to the two-language formula. In his Independence Day address after unfurling the national flag at Fort St George in Chennai, Mr Palaniswami said dividing Vellore district was following consideration of representations from ministers, MLAs and the public.

Tamil-Nadu CM K Palaniswami hit-out at MK Stalin for blaming his party AIADMK for the cancellation of elections in Vellore-constituency in April and said that it only happened after the seizure of huge-amounts of cash from the houses of "those known" to him. Campaigning in Vellore-LS-constituency, where elections will be held next-month, Palaniswami also accused MK Stalin of telling a "blatant-lie" on the issue.