DMK-led Secular Progressive Alliance candidate EVKS Elangovan of the Congress received the through-election to Erode East meeting constituency through a great margin of 66,406 votes, defeating AIADMK`s K S Thennarasu. Elangovan secured 109,959 votes and Thennarasu polled 43,553 votes, registering a vote proportion of 65.79% and 26.62%, respectively. Tamil nationalist S Seeman`s Naam Tamilar Katchi got here 1/3 with their candidate Menaka Navaneethan polling greater than 10,000 votes.
This meeting seat has visible a near contest withinside the ultimate elections.In the 2021 meeting elections, Elangovan`s son Thirumahan Everaa received through a margin of 8,904 votes defeating AIADMK candidate M Yuvaraja, in line with the Election Commission of India (ECI). Everaa`s dying in January necessitated the bypoll which his father and Congress veteran Elangovan received.
Thennarasu had received this seat returned withinside the 2016 meeting elections through a skinny margin of 7,794 votes. He had secured 64,879 votes towards DMK candidate (V C Chandirakumar) who polled 57,1/2 votes, in line with ECI. The AIADMK`s defeat withinside the bypoll is a setback for Tamil Nadu`s competition celebration led through Edappadi Palaniswami (EPS) as he’s touted to be dominant withinside the state`s western area which incorporates Erode district.
It`s additionally the primary election that the AIADMK confronted after the celebration elected EPS as their period in-between fashionable secretary and abolished the twin management installation through expelling O Panneerselvam. Thennarasu left the counting centre in a huff as Elangovan become main from the preliminary rounds. “Democracy has lost. Money has received,” Thennarasu advised newshounds in Erode. Later, EPS launched a assertion accusing the ruling DMK of inducing humans with money. “If the elections had been held in a unfastened and truthful manner, AIADMK could have received,” EPS stated. AIADMK`s best friend BJP talked about that the ruling celebration commonly wins bypolls in Tamil Nadu.
Elangovan attributed the win for the DMK-Congress alliance to leader minister and DMK president M K Stalin. “People have given us this victory due to the fact he has fulfilled 80% of the election guarantees he had made in 20 months of his governance,” Elangovan stated at a press conference. “Another purpose is that we’re a mundane alliance. And Tamil Nadu`s humans aid and love Rahul Gandhi and recognize his (Bharat Jodo) Yatra. This is a precursor for us to win in the approaching 2024 Lok Sabha elections.”
He brushed off AIADMK`s allegations that election officers had now no longer functioned properly. Elangovan, 74, introduced that he become now no longer in a function to have fun however he’s going to whole the paintings his overdue son Everaa had commenced for the humans of Erode.
Stalin stated Elangovan had registered a anciental win and attributed it to humans`s religion in his authorities who’ve taught a lesson to EPS. “Opposition chief Edappadi Palaniswami allow himself free at some stage in the marketing campaign and spoke like a fourth fee speaker. People have taught him a terrific lesson,” Stalin stated, including that they may acquire a larger victory in 2024. Responding to a query, he stated that he become already in India`s countrywide politics.
Stalin and EPS, and senior leaders of each events and their allies (BJP for AIADMK) had campaigned for the bypoll in a lively contest which become additionally marred through controversies along with coins distribution and violence. A overall of seventy seven applicants had been withinside the fray.
