Chennai, Dec 27 The DMK-Congress combine's routing of AIADMK in the Lok Sabha polls, Chief Minister M Karunanidhi's move to make his son M K Stalin his political successor, lawyers-police clash inside Madras High Court and uproar over Sri Lankan army's assault on LTTE hogged the headlines in 2009 in Tamil Nadu.
The state was also in news for "statue diplomacy" with neighbour Karnataka amid the Hogenakkal and decades-old Cauvery water disputes between them.
Defying pre-poll predictions, Congress-DMK combine romped home victorious in May general elections, grabbing 27 of total 39 seats in the state, making it a hat-trick of wins after its success in 2004 Lok Sabha polls and 2006 assembly elections.
Karunanidhi-led DMK also had the last laugh in subsequent bypolls to state assembly by trouncing rival J Jayalalithaa's AIADMK in crucial Tirumangalam constituency.
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