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 https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/as-dmk-chief-stalin-nibbles-through-aiadmks-traditional-vote-base-gounder-tag-fails-cm-edappadi-k-palaniswami/articleshow/69646884.cms