Western Tamil Nadu remains an AIADMK fortress

In his first media interview within the run as much as the Assembly election, DMK president M.K. Stalin had instructed The Puucho that west Tamil Nadu will now not be the fortress of the AIADMK. However, on Sunday as outcomes of the Assembly elections trickled in, the voters proved him flawed. As per late-night developments, the AIADMK had received or established leads in 31 of the 57 seats throughout eight districts in its bastion. The DMK was forward in additional than 10 seats and had received Bargur and Coonoor.

In the 2016 Assembly elections, the AIADMK had received 45 of those seats serving to it kind the federal government. The DMK had then received 10 and the Congress two.

Notably this time, Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami and the Ministers from the area, barring V. Saroja (Rasipuram), have retained their seats, regardless of a few of them having been particular targets of the marketing campaign by the DMK, its allies and different rival events.

Corruption prices in opposition to Mr. Palaniswami and Ministers S.P. Velumani and P. Thangamani had dominated the marketing campaign of all rival events. Yet, they’ve sailed via.

Mr. Velumani, who was the prime goal of the DMK’s corruption prices, had polled 1.19 lakh votes within the thirty second spherical of counting for the Thondamuthur Assembly Constituency with a lead of over 44,000 votes over the DMK’s Karthikeya Sivasenapathy.

The DMK’s campaginers had particularly focussed on the western area, comprising Coimbatore, Tiruppur, the Nilgiris, Erode, Salem, Namakkal, Dharmapuri and Krishnagiri districts. Its marketing campaign in all these districts had one clear message for the cadre — to show this time spherical that this area isn’t the bastion of the AIADMK anymore.

In his campaigns streching from Krishnagiri to Coimbatore, DMK president M.K. Stalin harped on this level and made it clear that his celebration was bent on bucking what has been a constant development in election after election — the AIADMK profitable many of the seats on this area whether or not or not it received the election Statewide.

Deputy Speaker Pollachi Jayaraman, who was targetted by the DMK in reference to the blackmail and sexual abuse of younger girls [which he had challenged], was comfortably forward of his rival K. Varadarajan of DMK.

The DMK managed to wrest Hosur and Bargur in Krishnagiri district from the AIADMK.

In the Nilgiris district, the Congress retained Udhagamandalam, the DMK misplaced Gudalur to the AIADMK, however took away Coonoor from it.

The Pattali Makkal Katchi, an ally of the AIADMK, led in Dharmapuri, Pennagaram and Salem West. A distinguished winner was PMK president G.K. Mani. Kongunadu Makkal Desiya Katchi, an ally of the DMK, received Tiruchengode.

In Coimbatore district, the AIADMK established clear leads in 9 of the whole 10 constituencies. The star constituency of Coimbatore South, which the AIADMK allotted to its ally, the BJP, witnessed a detailed race earlier than the celebration candidate Vanathi Srinivasan trounced Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) chief Kamal Haasan by a slender margin late on Sunday.