“I wish AIADMK will not stay in power without fulfilling the promises it has given during the election, like what they did during the previous tenure”.
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DMK leader Dayanidhi Maran is in all praise of the campaign despite the party failing to cross the half way mark.
The Muslim League has bagged one seat. The front did not do well enough to win even a single seat, or even get the vote share its individual parties have cornered in the past when in alliance with one of the giants.
She also said the outcome has put “permanent end to the family politics” of DMK. The three-time Chief Minister will be the first person after Marudhur Gopalan Ramachandran to be elected to two continuous terms.
However, Karunanidhi has set an individual record: this win from his native Thiruvarur constituency gives his thirteenth straight win in elections to the State Assembly. The incumbent CM has followed in the steps of MGR, retaining office though with a much smaller majority.
However, as she declared in a brief victory speech, beamed live by her Jaya television, she does not have vaulting national ambitions, nursed so often by regional satraps. But keeping with the experience of the 2014 Lok Sabha election, she chose to fight the assembly election on her own.
Sri Lankan MP Selvam Adaikalanathan today greeted AIADMK supremo and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa for winning the state assembly polls, and lauded the political culture evolved by her in Tamil Nadu. Two, the two dominant OBC castes of these regions, the Thevars and the Gounders, supported the party.
Secondly, senior politicians from the third front and the DMK admitted during campaign stage that AIADMK’s caste calculation in many places was astute. It appears the Supreme Court’s observation that a freebie “influences all people” and “shakes the root of free and fair elections to a large degree” did not find many takers in Tamil Nadu. The PMK’s R. Anbalagan was third with a tally of 16,241 and the Tamil Manilla Congress’s M. Sankar was in the fourth position with a tally of 14,806 votes.
Another important facet of this election was that parties tried to project chief ministerial candidates, which triggered a debate about leadership. The PWF was formed at the eleventh hour and failed to click. The PMK and DMDK have previously been allied with the DMK and the AIADMK, respectively.
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Dalits and religious minorities.
