Sunrise in Dravidian land: DMK storms back to power in Tamil Nadu
3 years, 7 months ago

Sunrise in Dravidian land: DMK storms back to power in Tamil Nadu

The Hindu  

Capitalising on the popular resentment against the ruling All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam’s decision to toe the line of the overbearing Bharatiya Janata Party during much of its tenure after the demise of Jayalalithaa and finally align with it for the Assembly election and the general anti-incumbency sentiment, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam -led Secular Progressive Alliance registered an emphatic victory in Tamil Nadu. This time around, the AIADMK won 66 seats, garnering a 33.29 per cent vote share, and lost at least a dozen seats to the DMK by wafer-thin margins. Within the SPA, 133 of the 188 candidates who contested on the DMK’s rising sun symbol won, garnering 37.7 per cent vote share. Despite a massive sex scandal in the western belt town of Pollachi, and the subsequent attempts by the AIADMK government to cover it up, the DMK could not make much headway in the western belt, which is the stronghold of the Gounder community to which Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami belongs: it won a mere 13 seats while its ally, the Congress, picked up two, and the CPI managed to win one seat. Although the party managed to win four seats, its vote share dipped to 2.62 per cent.

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