Why Tamil Nadu CM’s gounder tag failed to work

The gounder caste tag, cultivated earnestly by Tamil Nadu chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami for his party and the government to keep him in good stead through his present term, bombed at the hustings because he failed to keep track of DMK president M K Stalin’s game plan to nibble through other community votes, especially the arunthathiars, a sub-sect of the Scheduled Castes.

from Times of India http://bit.ly/2HVQNpS