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Congress retains Kanyakumari Lok Sabha seat
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May 03, 2021 12:30 IST
The bypoll was necessitated following the death of Congress veteran H. Vasantha Kumar last year due to COVID-19.
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The bypoll was necessitated following the death of Congress veteran H. Vasantha Kumar last year due to COVID-19. Congress retained the Kanyakumari Lok Sabha seat with its candidate Vijay Vasanth winning the bypoll by a margin of over one lakh votes against his nearest rival and former union minister Pon Radhakrishnan.
According to the Election Commission website, Vijay Vasanth won by securing 5,76,037 votes of the total votes polled in the constituency.
Coimbatore South Election Result 2021 LIVE: MNM s Kamal Haasan leads against Congress Mayura S Jayakumar
Kamal Haasan is pitched against Mayura S Jayakumar (Congress), Vanathi Srinivasan (BJP), Abdul Wahab (NTK) and R Duraisamy (AMMK).
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Updated: May 2, 2021, 11:26 AM IST
Actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan is contesting from Coimbatore (South) under Coimbatore district in Tamil Nadu. The Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) chief is pitched against Mayura S Jayakumar (Congress), Vanathi Srinivasan (BJP), Abdul Wahab (NTK) and R Duraisamy (AMMK), along with many other independent candidates.
The Coimbatore South seat is showing flip-flops every now and then. Early trends showed Kamal Haasan leading. However, after the second round of counting, MNM chief Kamal Hassan was trailing while Congress Mayur Jayakumar was leading.
Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry s Anxious Wait Ahead Of Election Results Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry s Anxious Wait Ahead Of Election Results The counting of postal ballots is set to begin at 8 am on Sunday after which the votes polled in the Electronic Voting Machines are expected to be taken up half an hour later.
Authorities said the counting of votes would be in strict adherence to the EC guidelines.
Thiruvananthapuram/Chennai:
All arrangements are in place for counting of votes on Sunday in tune with COVID-19 guidelines for Assembly polls held on April 6 in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry as political parties await results anxiously.
With massive security measures in place and elaborate Covid-19 safety precautions, counting began at 8am across the state. Photo by S Lenin
CHENNAI: Initial trends in counting for the Tamil Nadu assembly election on Sunday pushed M K Stalin’s DMK in the lead with the ruling AIADMK led by Edappadi K Palaniswami and O Panneerselvam not far behind. In the Union territory of Puducherry, the AINR Congress-BJP alliance established a lead ahead of its Congress rival.
In the Kanyakumari Lok Sabha by-election, Congress candidate Vijay Vasanth, son of H Vasantha Kumar, whose death due to Covid-19 caused the vacancy, was ahead of BJP’s Pon Radhkrishnan.