Caste issue, cadre base helped AIADMK in Coimbatore region
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Despite mounting a sustained and vociferous assault on the AIADMK’s distinguished faces, the DMK has drawn a clean in the Coimbatore region. Its candidates had been defeated in all 10 Assembly seats together with Singanallur, the lone constituency it had received in 2016. This is the second time in a decade the occasion, which is ready to type the following authorities, is dealing with such a debacle.
The DMK management had gone all out to focus on outgoing Local Administration Minister S.P. Velumani and Deputy Speaker Pollachi V.Jayaraman. Yet voters gave the AIADMK a sweep.
AIADMK spokesperson Kovai K. Selvaraj mentioned the sweep was an endorsement that the voters didn’t imagine the DMK’s costs. He informed The Puucho that the occasion’s robust cadre base helped it win. Claiming that the AIADMK has round 4.7 lakh members in Coimbatore district, he asserted that their groundwork led to the victory.
“Many parties would not even have workers in some villages, but for us, there would be between 150 and 200 party workers for each polling booth,” Mr. Selvaraj mentioned. These cadres countered the “false campaign” in opposition to Mr.Velumani and Mr.Jayaraman, he added.
The AIADMK received 9 seats, whereas Coimbatore South was bagged by Vanathi Srinivasan of BJP, who defeated Makkal Needhi Maiam chief Kamal Haasan by a slender margin.
A DMK functionary, requesting anonymity, mentioned the outcomes confirmed voters from the Kongu Vellala Gounder neighborhood, a dominant caste in the district, didn’t favour the occasion.
“People from this community feel that they would be more secure with the AIADMK in power,” he mentioned lamenting that his occasion had not ensured sufficient illustration for Gounders in occasion posts or administrative posts when in energy. The AIADMK had cultivated the neighborhood handing them plum portfolios on the State and district stage, he felt.
He gave the instance of R. Sakkarapani of the DMK, a member of the Kongu Vellala Gounder, who received for the sixth consecutive time from Oddanchathram in Dindigul district. “He was not given a cabinet berth in 1996 and 2006,” the DMK chief mentioned.
“The caste factor could have worked. But we need to study the results in detail,” mentioned Coimbatore MP PR Natarajan of the CPI(M), an ally of the DMK.
There was additionally a sense that the outgoing Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami, who belonged to the Gounder neighborhood, was accessible to all and a number of the remarks by the DMK leaders made throughout the marketing campaign may have additionally influenced voters.
The victory margin in most constituencies in the district is lower than 12,500 votes.
A commerce union chief mentioned the DMK entrance lacked a commanding power to foresee the marketing campaign in the district. For occasion, eight unions belonging to at least one industrial sector gave their help to the DMK entrance. “No one came forward and asked us to work for the front or spoke to us. We have about 70,000 votes across the district. We could not even meet all the candidates,” he mentioned.
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