The list had 20 seats from Tamil Nadu and 2 seats from Puducherry.
The Tamil Nadu unit of the MIM had submitted its list to party chief Asaduddin Owaisi in which they had mentioned the constituencies from where the state unit was hoping to field candidates. TNM had reported a week ago that AIMIM would either choose to go with TTV Dhinakaran’s AMMK or the DMK in the upcoming Tamil Nadu elections. Asaduddin Owaisi, MP and the AIMIM Party led by him has been allotted 3 constituencies in Tamil Nadu, namely Vaniyambadi, Krishnagiri and Sankarapuram,” said TTV Dhinakaran. It remains to be seen whether the DMK aligns with the BJP or the Congress in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.“In the alliance led by the AMMK, Mr. With as many as 39 Lok Sabha seats, Tamil Nadu is a key player in national politics. And it has chosen Dhinakaran, who was claiming to be the rightful heir of her political legacy. RK Nagar was considered a bastion of Jayalaithaa. But the DMK’s loss is not as embarrassing as it is for the EPS-OPS faction of the AIADMK. While BJP supporters claim “money power” and the release of Jayalalithaa’s video in the Apollo Hospital were the reasons for his win, for Dhinakaran the bypoll success could not have come at a better time.Īs far as the DMK is concerned, a win would have lend credence to its campaign that people were fed up with the “horse-trading” regime of AIADMK. Senior RSS ideologue and Thuglak editor S Gurumurthy was believed to have acted as a peacemaker between the EPS-OPS factions with the ultimate aim to purge AIADMK of bad elements (read Sasikala, Dhinakaran and loyalists) and unite it with the BJP. The vacuum created by Jayalalithaa’s death provided it the chance. The saffron party has been trying to make inroads into the state dominated by Jayalalithaa-led AIADMK and M. Already there are speculations of Dhinakaran staging a political coup. The loss is expected to impact the EPS-OPS minority government with many predicting a “sooner than later” ouster. The verdict also shows that the most successful political party on date -the BJP - completely “misread” Tamil Nadu, they say. While the BJP may have been a nonentity in the state, it was backing the AIADMK, minus Dhinakaran and aunt Sasikala.
Political observers saw it as a rebuff to the ruling AIADMK regime headed by Chief Minister K Palaniswami and his deputy O Panneerselvam. Its 2,28,234 voters include 1,10,903 men, 1,17,232 women and 99 transgenders and the verdict emerging from there is now expected to lead to dramatic consequences in the state’s equally dramatic politics. Notably, RK Nagar has more women voters than men. Marudhu Ganesh came third at 24651, while BJP's Karu Nagarajan won 1,417 votes at the end of counting. Madhusudhanan to come a distant second with 48,306 votes. TTV Dhinakaran won with 89,013 votes, leaving AIADMK's E. (Follow The Tribune on Facebook and Twitter )ĭhinakaran won by a margin of 40,707 votes in the constituency represented by larger-than-life J Jayalalithaa, the late chief minister. Sidelined AIADMK leader TTV Dhinakaran on Sunday won the prestigious RK Nagar bypoll with a margin that held key markers for all political players, including non-player BJP which is trying to make inroads into Tamil Nadu via the AIADMK.
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