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Congress Bags Puducherry Seat; AIADMK Ahead In Vikravandi And Nanguneri, Two Seats It Had Lost Earlier
Supporters of the AIADMK party celebrate in front of the residence of the acting chief minister O Panneerselvam in Chennai. (ARUN SANKAR/AFP/GettyImages)
The ruling Congress in Puducherry has retained the Kamaraj Nagar Assembly seat by winning the bypoll held on 21 October.
Congress' A John Kumar won the polls with 14,782 votes, defeating his nearest rival and AINRC party nominee S Bhuvaneswarane, who managed 7,611 votes.
The seat fell vacant after Congress legislator V Vaithilingam was elected to the Lok Sabha in April this year.
Meanwhile, in Tamil Nadu, the ruling AIADMK was leading in the Vikravandi and Nanguneri Assembly seats where by-polls were held on 21 October.
The bypoll in Vikravandi was necessitated following the death of DMK legislator K Rathamani in June, while the Nanguneri seat fell vacant after Congress legislator H Vasantha Kumar got elected to the Lok Sabha and resigned.
A total of 35 candidates are in the fray in the two seats. In Vikravandi, 23 candidates are in the fray while the main fight is between ruling AIADMK's R Muthamilselvan and DMK's N Pugazhenthi.
In Nanguneri, 12 candidates are in the contest though the main fight is between AIADMK's V Narayanan and Congress candidate Ruby R Manohar.
(This story has been published from a wire agency feed without modifications to the text. Only the headline has been changed.)
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