Chennai: Millions voted on Monday in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, bringing down the curtains on staggered five-state elections – the biggest popularity test since the Lok Sabha battle. Expressing her heartfelt thanks to the people, she said they have handed her party “a historic victory” by voting her back to power. With the party’s victory, Jayalalithaa is now poised to become the chief minister of Tamil Nadu for the sixth time.
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“. under your dynamic leadership and determination to serve the people above self, Tamil Nadu is set to lead the nation in all spheres once again”, Rosaiah said.
Polling was held for 234 total Assembly seats in Tamil Nadu Elections 2016.
She said that the verdict has put a permanent end to the family politics of DMK. In Kerala, Congress-led ruling UDF and CPI-M headed opposition LDF are in a neck and neck electoral fight in the state where BJP is striving hard to make a maiden entry into the assembly.
The Election Commission should adopt some of the practices introduced by the Indian Election Commission in the recent Tamil Nadu state election to check election violations including phantom voters.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose party had dubbed Jayalalithaa corrupt during the election campaign, promptly congratulated her. DMDK and allies are leading in just 01 assembly constituency. Jayalalithaa, knowing this, wooed them with promises in her manifestoes, from discounts on two wheelers for working women to an increase in maternity assistance.
The bad news for the AIADMK came from Chennai, which was battered by flash floods in December and whose voters appeared to have overwhelmingly turned against the ruling party.
She said she believed in God and had an alliance with the people.
The much-hyped Third Front, a six-party combine led by Vijayakant’s DMDK, which positioned itself as an alternative to the two Dravidian parties failed to bag even a single seat. Especially, the AIADMK and DMK has shared the power alternatively in the state.
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“Parties who believed opinion polls more than the people of Tamil Nadu have tasted defeat in this election”.
