The results of the bye elections held for 5 constituencies have been declared. As expected, all the seats have been won by the DMK & Congress alliance.
The boycott of the elections by AIADMK has had no effect on the voter turnout. In fact, this boycott ensured the winning of all the seats by the DMK alliance besides helping the fledgling DMDK.
Particularly of interest is the result of the Thondamuthur assembly result. The Congress has won this seat after 47 years. The importance of this win can be gauged from the hard work that had gone into the campaign. Mr.Kandasamy, the Congress candidate, has been indeed lucky to have Union Ministers, P.Chidambaram, A.Raja and G.K.Vasan, Deputy Chief Minister M.K.Stalin and Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi campaigning for him. All this efforts resulted in a victory of 71,487 votes.
Another interesting factor is that, BJP has been pushed to the 5th place here. BJP has fared worse than the regional caste based party - Kongu Munnetra Kazhagam - polling just 9045 votes.
Perhaps, its time, AIADMK started to think over its strategy and take some positive decisions.
