AIADMK to discuss RK Nagar bypoll defeat today

December 25, 2017 08:41

The ruling AIADMK has alleged that there was a 'tacit understanding' between TTV Dinakaran and the opposition DMK to defeat it in the RK Nagar bypoll, in which the sidelined party leader emerged victorious.

The party is also likely to brainstorm on the defeat at a meeting in Chennai on Sunday, party sources said. Asserting that the win achieved by "conspiracy" by Stalin and Dhinakaran will not affect AIADMK, party leaders O Panneerselvam and K Palaniswami said.

The DMK, their party's arch rival, faced its "worst defeat" in an election to any assembly segment in Tamil Nadu so far. Dinakaran won the bypoll by a thumping margin of over 40,000 votes while DMK candidate N Marudhu Ganesh finished third, garnering 24,651 votes, in the process losing his deposit. AIADMKs' E Madhusudanan came second.

The bypoll was held to fill the vacancy caused by the death of sitting MLA and then chief minister J Jayalalithaa.

"The result of the RK Nagar bypoll is an outcome of the tacit understanding between DMK working president MK Stalin and Dinakaran," Panneerselvam and Palaniswami said in a joint statement on Sunday night.

Rejecting the charge, Stalin alleged it was the state ministers under the charge of Palaniswami and Panneerselvam who aided the Dinakaran camp.

Responding to reporters' query on the charge by AIADMK, he asserted that the DMK faced the poll only in "alliance with democracy". "Hence this poll is not a loss for the DMK. It is a huge defeat for the Election Commission," Stalin claimed.

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