BackAudio story | Sri Lanka issue stirs no electoral chords
Audio story | Sri Lanka issue stirs no electoral chords
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For all the bluster by M. Karunanidhi and J. Jayalalitha over the last few weeks, each politician more eager than the other to declare that they would create a separate Eelam in Sri Lanka, the issue seems to have made little difference to how people voted.
0744dbbc-41eb-11de-9d3c-000b5dabf636.flvDuring the lead-up to the elections in Tamil Nadu, I spent some time on the ground, talking to voters and to individual candidates. Somehow, the emphasis never seemed to be on Sri Lanka. At least a couple of analysts told me that the economy would prove to be more important, and that seems to have been the case. Prices had climbed, agriculture in areas of the state had suffered, and industrial jobs were threatened because of the economic slowdown.
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