DMK sweeps suburbs

AIADMK fails to retain city's four southern constituencies

May 20, 2016 12:00 am | Updated September 12, 2016 07:26 pm IST - CHENNAI:

BIg Victory:BJP's A. Vedasubramaniam (right) greets DMK’s S.R. Raja for his win in Tambaram on Thursday. —Photo: G.Krishnaswamy

BIg Victory:BJP's A. Vedasubramaniam (right) greets DMK’s S.R. Raja for his win in Tambaram on Thursday. —Photo: G.Krishnaswamy

After winning the four Assembly constituencies in the city’s southern suburbs — Sholinganallur, Alandur, Pallavaram and Tambaram — comfortably in 2011, the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) lost in all of them.

The mood in the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) camp turned euphoric after their party candidates started registering a lead in the four constituencies in addition to Kancheepuram, Uthiramerur, Cheyyur and Madurantakam segments. Over 25 lakh voters had cast their votes in 11 Assembly segments in Kancheepuram district.

Winning margin

In Tambaram, the victory celebration started in the evening after DMK candidate S.R. Raja increased his margin by more over 10,000 votes.

Crackers were burst and sweets were distributed on Bharatha Matha Street at East Tambaram after it was announced that Mr. Raja, a former MLA and also two-time former chairman of Tambaram Municipality, had defeated AIADMK’s C. Rajendran, former Lok Sabha South Chennai MP, by 14,652 votes.

In Alandur, veteran politician Panruti S. Ramachandran lost to DMK’s district secretary and former Labour Welfare Minister T.M. Anbarasan by 19,169 votes. S. Aravind Ramesh of the DMK defeated N. Sundaram by 14,913 votes in Sholinganallur and in Pallavaram, former Pallavaram Municipal Chairman E. Karunanidhi defeated AIADMK’s C.R. Saraswathi by 22,165 votes.

In Sriperumpudur, K. Palani of the AIADMK defeated K. Selvaperunthagai of the Congress by 10,716 votes.

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