Puducherry CM wins bypoll to enter assembly

November 22, 2016 13:41

Senior Congress leader and Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy today won the bypoll to the Nellithope assembly constituency defeating the AIADMK's Om Sakthi Segar, by a margin of 11,144 votes.

While Narayanasamy, whose victory was on expected lines, polled 18,709 votes out of the total 26,564 votes, Segar got 7,565 votes.

A John Kumar of the Congress had vacated the seat to enable Narayanasamy, who is not a member of the assembly, contest a by-election before the December 6 deadline for getting elected to the House.

Narayanasamy was accorded a tumultuous reception by volunteers of Congress and the DMK, its alliance partner in the assembly.

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