CHENNAI, April 10 -- A demand to trifurcate Tamil Nadu is getting silent momentum across the State. Though leaders of major political leaders are reluctant to come out in the open asking for the same, the intelligentsia, representatives of trade and industries bodies and farmers have expressed their anguish over the continued indifference of the DMK and the AIADMK to the needs of southern and south west Tamil Nadu.

S Ramadoss, the founder of the Pattali Makkal Katchi, an outfit of the Vanniyar community, is already on record demanding the bifurcation of Tamil Nadu into northern and southern States. "It is always better to have smaller States for administrative convenience. Events in the past have proved that division of larger States int...