AIADMK retains Srirangam seat with thumping majority


Posted on 17th Feb 2015 10:59 am by mohit kumar

Chennai, Feb 16 (IANS) Tamil Nadu's ruling AIADMK Monday retained the Srirangam assembly constituency in the bye-election with a huge margin over archrival DMK.

AIADMK candidate S.Valarmathi polled 151,561 votes while DMK's N.Anand secured 55,045.

Valarmathi was in a comfortable lead right from the beginning as counting began this morning.

The assembly seat was earlier held by former chief minister J.Jayalalithaa and the bye-election was necessitated following her disqualification after her conviction in a corruption case and sentence of four years in jail.

In a statement issued here, Jayalalithaa thanked the voters of Srirangam for electing her party's candidate.

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