In Tamil Nadu, DMK and Allies Likely to Garner Big Chunk of LS Seats
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2024-06-04 04:02 GMT
Chennai: Initial trends hint at the ruling DMK and its allies winning the lion's share of Tamil Nadu's 39 Lok Sabha seats with main opposition AIADMK and the BJP putting up a good fight in a number of segments. Chief Minister M K Stalin-led party's star candidates Kanimozhi (Thoothukudi), T R Baalu (Sriperumbudur), Dayanidhi Maran (Central Chennai), Tamizhachi Thangapandian (South Chennai) are leading in their respective constituencies.
The DMK took an early lead in a number of constituencies across Tamil Nadu as election officials first took up the count of postal ballots at 8 am on Tuesday.
From 8.30 am, when a count of EVM votes was taken up with the completion of a count of postal ballots between 8 am and 8.30 am the initial trends from across Tamil Nadu indicated a clear advantage for the DMK and its allies.
Allies of the DMK including Congress party's Karti Chidambaram (Sivaganga) and Marxist party candidate Su Venkatesan (Madurai) had a slender lead over others.
BJP's Annamalai (Coimbatore) L Murugan (Nilgiris) Nainar Nagendran (Tirunelveli), PMK's star candidate Sowmya Anbumani (Dharmapuri), AIADMK's Aatral Ashok Kumar (Erode) are putting up a good fight.
Counting of votes, amid tight security, polled in the April 19 Lok Sabha elections to 39 constituencies in Tamil Nadu began at 8 AM across the state. As many as 950 candidates are in the fray in the 39 Lok Sabha segments in the state, which had a voter turnout of 69.72 percent in the single-phase election in Tamil Nadu.