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Sivasankar. S.S of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) won the Kunnam constituency with a margin of 15557 votes. He garnered 87237 votes, while the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam candidate Saranya. A came second with 71680 votes.

Rajendran S of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam won the Ariyalur constituency with a margin of 24498 votes. He garnered 95219 votes, while Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam candidate Latha Balu came second with 70721 votes.

Three DMK ministers launched a coordinated attack on AIADMK leader Edappadi K Palaniswami. They accused him of being dictated by the BJP, neglecting Chennai, and exhibiting double standards on family politics. The ministers also criticized the BJP government for LPG shortages and foreign policy failures.

The 2026 Kerala Legislative Assembly elections will be held in a single phase on April 9, according to the Election Commission of India, with counting scheduled for May 4. The term of the current assembly is set to end on May 23, and the Model Code of Conduct is now in force for the 140-member House, also known as the Kerala Niyamasabha.

A special court considering cases under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act on Thursday sent M Sivasankar, former principal secretary to chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan, to the custody of Enforcement Directorate (ED) for seven days. He has been arraigned as fifth accused in the money laundering case related to the busted gold smuggling bid.

Customs team probing the gold smuggling case, on Monday, submitted before the additional chief judicial magistrate (economic offences) court that former principal secretary to chief minister, M Sivasankar, who is also an accused in the case, used three mobile phones though he had given a declaration of having used only one. Citing this fresh evidence, customs sought an extension of his custody for seven more days.

M Sivasankar, former principal secretary to chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan, has travelled to United Arab Emirates (UAE) along with gold smuggling case co-accused Swapna Suresh seven times, said Customs at the court on Tuesday during the hearing of Sivasankar’s bail petition.

A day after M Sivasankar, chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan's former principal secretary, revealed his version on the gold smuggling case by releasing excerpts from the book he is writing, Swapna Suresh, the prime accused in the case, came out strongly against the IAS official.

National Award-winning choreographer Sivasankar Master is fighting Covid-19. The dance master is currently hospitalised, and it is reported that 75 per cent of his lungs are infected.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has contended before the Kerala high court that offence under Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) can be invoked against former principal secretary to chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan, M Sivasankar, in the gold smuggling case.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) probing the money laundering aspect of the Thiruvananthapuram gold smuggling case, on Thursday, filed a supplementary chargesheet against M Sivasankar, former principal secretary to the chief minister. The agency submitted in the report that Sivasankar had knowingly assisted Swapna Prabha Suresh, Sarith P S and Sandeep Nair in the gold smuggling activities.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) which submitted a chargesheet after probing into the money trail behind the Thiruvananthapuram gold smuggling case, has also found out that M Sivasankar, former principal secretary to the chief minister, contacted his chartered accountant P Venugopal to talk about Swapna Suresh even after the racket got busted.

Opposition leader V D Satheesan on Thursday said chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan was forced to support and justify his former principal secretary M Sivasankar out of sheer fright.

Almost three and a half months after he was first questioned by central agencies over his alleged role in the Thiruvananthapuram gold smuggling case, M Sivasankar, former principal secretary to chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan, was arrested by Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday.

M Sivasankar, former principal chief secretary to chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan, shared quotations likely to be quoted by two prospective bidders for LIFE Mission projects to Swapna Suresh even before the tender was opened, Enforcement Directorate (ED) has informed high court.

Suspended IAS officer M Sivasankar was remanded in judicial custody till November 26 by the special court for considering the prevention of money laundering act (PMLA) cases on Thursday. The court reserved its order on Sivasankar’s bail application and is likely to take up the case on Tuesday.

Former principal secretary to CM M Sivasankar and his team in the chief minister’s office (CMO) were fully aware of the smuggling of gold and other electronic items through the diplomatic channel, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) submitted in the court on Wednesday.

Customs sleuths continued detailed search on Wednesday in connection with gathering evidence against senior IAS officer and former principal secretary of chief minister M Sivasankar whose friends have been arrested in the gold smuggling case.

Special court for considering cases under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) on Thursday permitted IAS officer M Sivasankar, the fifth accused in the enforcement directorate (ED) case relating to Thiruvananthapuram gold smuggling, to make video calls to his immediate family members from prison. The court also granted other requests of Sivasankar, including access to writing material and meeting close relatives as well.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday questioned M Sivasankar, former principal secretary to the chief minister, for the third time. He was reportedly questioned along with Swapna Suresh, the prime accused in the gold smuggling case, for nearly nine hours.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA), which is probing the gold smuggling case along with Customs, interrogated former secretary to the chief minister and IAS officer M Sivasankar here on Thursday. The officer, who is under suspension, was interrogated for four-and-a-half hours by a team of NIA officers who had come from Kochi.

M Sivasankar, who was principal chief secretary to chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan when alleged gold smuggling came to light, received kickbacks for the smuggling and from contractors of LIFE Mission projects through key accused Swapna Suresh, Enforcement Directorate (ED) has told the Kerala high court.

Additional CJM (economic offences) court dismissed the bail petition of former principal secretary M Sivasankar ‘observing that strong prima facie grounds exist to hold that Sivasankar is concerned with smuggling operation’. ACJM Deepu C accepted customs’ arguments that if Sivasankar is released on bail, he would tamper evidence and influence witnesses with the help of ‘big shots’.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) continued its interrogation of M Sivasankar, former principal secretary to chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan, in the LIFE Mission case at its office here on Thursday. The agency summoned his chartered accountant P Venugopal to the office.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) which filed a chargesheet in the gold smuggling case has left the door open for further investigation into the role of M Sivasankar IAS in the case. “The role of M Sivasankar, who was the key person in the present government, in the entire episode has to be thoroughly investigated,” the agency specifically stated in its chargesheet submitted in the special court for PMLA cases on Wednesday.