DMK Wins Erode East, Maintains Profitable Streak Forward of 2026 Tamil Nadu Meeting Polls – News18
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DMK’s V C Chandhirakumar received the Erode East bypoll, defeating NTK’s M Okay Seethalakshmi by 91,558 votes, boosting the M Okay Stalin-led celebration earlier than subsequent yr’s elections.
DMK’s VC Chandhirakumar trounced NTK’s MK Seethalakshmi by a margin of 91,558 votes.
The ruling DMK in Tamil Nadu prolonged its profitable run in elections on Saturday by rising victorious within the Erode East bypoll with a large margin towards actor-politician Seeman’s NTK, a victory that ought to come as a significant enhance to the M Okay Stalin-led celebration forward of subsequent yr’s Meeting elections.
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam candidate V C Chandhirakumar trounced Naam Tamilar Katchi’s (NTK) M Okay Seethalakshmi by a margin of 91,558 votes. Within the course of, NTK, a Tamil nationalist organisation, forefeited deposit.
Chief Minister and DMK president Stalin stated his celebration registered an enormous victory on Periyar’s (rationalist chief E V Ramasamy) soil. Erode is the native district of Ramasamy, a Dravidian stalwart. The win was a recognition of the DMK authorities’s good governance.
AIADMK chief and Chief of Opposition, Edappadi Okay Palaniswami, described the DMK’s win as “faux,” saying there was “no one on the bottom,” referring to the principle opposition celebration and others protecting away from the competition.
With 44 different candidates– most of them independents, in fray, NOTA (Not one of the Above) grabbed the third place with 6,109 votes.
Chandhirakumar polled 1,15,709 votes whereas Seethalakshmi got here a distant second with 24,151 votes.
The profitable candidate later stated the DMK has secured “75 per cent of the votes.” “I dedicate this victory to the Chief Minister (Stalin). Individuals have reposed religion within the DMK, the CM and deputy CM (Udhayanidhi Stalin),” he informed reporters.
The victory sparked jubilation amongst DMK supporters in Erode and elsewhere. On the celebration headquarters Anna Arivalayam in Chennai, DMK employees celebrated the win by bursting crackers.
The bypoll was necessitated because of the dying of Congress MLA from the section, EVKS Elangovan final yr.
The Congress is part of the DMK-led Secular Progressive Alliance (SPA) within the state and the seat was received by the nationwide celebration’s E Thirumahan Everaa in 2021 elections. Following his dying in January, 2023, his father Elangovan received the bypoll held in March that yr.
The February 5 election that noticed DMK and NTK lock horns was fought within the background of a rivalry between the 2 events over Seeman’s vehement criticism of EV Ramasamy ‘Periyar’ just lately. The Dravidian stalwart is a extremely revered determine in Tamil Nadu and based the rationalist organisation Dravidar Kazhagam, the ideological fountainhead of DMK.
In an obvious dig at Seeman, Stalin stated DMK’s big victory got here on Periyar’s soil.
All those that contested towards the DMK within the Erode East by-election misplaced their ballot deposit, he stated, addressing a large gathering of the DMK at Chennai.
DMK’s triumph, roughly anticipated at the same time as AIADMK and BJP boycotted the hustings, follows the ruling party-led coalition’s gorgeous 2024 Lok Sabha polls present, the place it received all of the 39 seats in Tamil Nadu, in addition to netting the lone Puducherry section.
Meeting elections are scheduled each in Tamil Nadu and the Puducherry union territory subsequent yr. The DMK is eager to retain energy in TN, after sweeping the elections in 2021 that ended its 10 year-long stint within the opposition. DMK and its allies had received 38 of the 39 LS seats within the 2019 parliamentary polls as properly. The ruling celebration had retained the Vikravandi Meeting seat in a bypoll held final yr.
It swept the native physique elections held within the state after coming to energy.
Earlier within the day, the counting of polled votes started at 8 am at a authorities faculty in Chithode on this district.
Postal ballots have been taken up for counting first.
The polling on Wednesday witnessed a voter turnout of 67.97 per cent.
The remainder of the candidates within the fray put up a poor present, with a few of them getting votes in double digits.
(This story has not been edited by News18 employees and is printed from a syndicated information company feed – PTI)
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