Politics over a pandemic assails Tamil Nadu

It’s a health crisis that has been steadily brewing, with the coronavirus spreading its tentacles to the state’s backwoods. But in Tamil Nadu as it must be in many states across the country, the response to the pandemic is not just laced with politics, but there’s been a surfeit of it. With assembly elections less than a year away in Tamil Nadu and the ruling AIADMK faced with an ‘invisible’ enemy, the opposition parties and allies have been thrown by the wayside.