AIADMK leader Jayalalithaa waving to supporters from her Poes Garden residence in Chennai on Friday. Soon after the party's landslide victory Ms. Jayalalithaa said her foremost priority would be to restore law and order and implement poll promises in one-and-a-half years. Photo: S.R. Raghunathan
AIADMK supporters distributing sweets to celebrate the victory of party candidates in Chennai. Photo: S.R.Raghunathan
DMDK party cadres offering sweets to the party's founder-president Vijaykant, after the announcement of the Tamil Nadu Assembly election results at the party headquarters at Koyembedu in Chennai. Photo: S.S.Kumar
Crowds throng the Poes Garden residence of AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa in Chennai. Photo: S.R.Raghunathan
Disappointed DMK workers after their party's poor showing in the Assembly polls, at Anna Arivalayam in Chennai. Photo : M. Vedhan.
Chennai Police Commissioner T. Rajendran and other police officials at the residence of AIADMK general secretrary J.Jayalalithaa in Chennai. Photo: S.R. Raghunathan
Anna Arivalayam, the DMK headquarters in Chennai wears a deserted look. Photo : M. Vedhan
DMK activist Kushboo comes out after meeting the party president M. Karunanidhi at his Gopalpuram residence. Photo: R. Ragu
A scene at a counting centre at Sholinganallur, near Chennai. The entire process has been videographed by the election commission. Photo: M. Karunakaran
DMK treasurer M.K.Stalin emerging from party president M.Karunanidhi's Gopalapuram residence. Photo: R. Ragu