Tamil Nadu election results 2021: Four BJP candidates win

CHENNAI: Four out of the 20 BJP candidates emerged victorious in the Tamil Nadu assembly election. They ended a 15-year-long wait of the party to have its members in the state assembly.

State BJP president L Murugan, who lost in Dharapuram constituency against DMK candidate Kayalvizhi, said the party representative would enter the state assembly after 2021-2026 tenure.


After trailing behind

MNM

leader and actor Kamal Haasan for more than 22 rounds, BJP national women wing president Vanathi Srinivasan narrowed down the margin and edged over her close contestant. She also pushed her party’s main rival Congress’s candidate Mayura S Jayakumar to the third position. The counting continued till late on Sunday. At the end of the nail-biting final rounds, Vanathi was declared as the winner with a margin of 1,728 votes against Kamal who secured 51,481 votes. She secured 53,209 votes.

Former AIADMK minister Nainer Nagendran, who joined the BJP after the demise of Jayalalithaa, won Tirunelveli constituency by securing 92,282 votes as against DMK’s candidate Lakshmanan, who secured 69,175 votes. He was maintaining a healthy lead from the start.

C S Saraswathi defeated DMK’s senior leader and sitting MLA Subulakshmi Jagadeesan in Modakurichi with a slender margin.

Senior BJP functionary M R Gandhi won the

Nagercoil

assembly segment as against sitting DMK MLA N Suresh Rajan. Gandhi secured 87,805 votes, while Rajan got 75,387 votes.

State leader Murugan along with senior party functionaries and Vinoj P Selvam (Harbour), Khushbu Sundar (Thousand Lights), who lost the election against DMK candidates, attended a review meeting on the party’s performance in the polls and look into the factors that led to their defeats.

Inside sources said that they would send a report to the national leadership regarding the election outcome and the factors that led to the defeat of prominent candidates like party-state vice president

K Annamalai

in Aravakurichi and other constituencies.

“Our cadres worked hard for the party candidates. We will put more efforts and expand the party base in the state to emerge stronger in the days to come,” C T Ravi told TOI.


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