DMK racing towards clean sweep in urban civic polls in TN wrests West from AIADMK
Chennai Feb 22 PTI The DMK is clearly on its way to make a clean sweep of the urban civic polls in Tamil Nadu and has wrested the western region convincingly considered a bastion of the main opposition AIADMK Buoyed by one more huge electoral win DMK workers celebrated the victory across the state by bursting fire crackers distributing sweets and hailing party chief M K Stalins leadership Though the DMK won the 2021 Assembly election and formed the government its arch rival AIADMK had won all the 10 Assembly seats in Coimbatore region and for a long time western Tamil Nadu is seen as a fortress of the AIADMK As per results available and trends for this region the DMKs victory score in urban civic polls has crossed about 75 per cent here Right after the last years Assembly win the DMK has been focussing on the western areas and the party appointed Minister V Senthil Balaji hailing from the Karur in the region as party in-charge for Coimbatore Many of Balajis supporters in social media hailed the victory lauding him for the turnaround in DMKs prospects in this part of the state Notably the DMK has also won in Thondamuthur town panchayat the home turf of former AIADMK Minister S P Velumani considered a heavy weight in the region After decades the ruling party has captured the Gobichettypalayam municipality the native of another AIADMK stalwart KA Sengottaiyan Stalin who had asserted that victory is sure and duty and responsibility is more said that the win in urban civic polls reflected the faith people have on the DMK government Out of the total 1374 wards in corporations the DMK has so far won 425 and the AIADMK 75 In municipalities of the 3843 ward member seats the DMK till now has won 1832 and the AIADMK 494 As regards town panchayats the ruling party emerged victorious in 4261 seats out of the total 7621 The AIADMK has got 1178 town panchayat seats The declaration of results is underway and the counting of votes started at 8 AM today As more and more results of victory poured in from municipal corporation areas municipalities and town panchayats DMK veteran and party general secretary Duraimurugan called on Stalin here and greeted him on the partys continuing winning streak DMK MPs A Raja and Dayanidhi Maran were among others who visited Stalin Maran tweeted We wholeheartedly thank all the voters for their immense faith and trust In yet another monumental victory the people of Tamil Nadu have voted overwhelmingly in support of the DMK in the LocalBodyElections2022 Under the visionary leadership of the Honble CM Thiru mkstalin let us work towards taking TN to greater heights glory DMKwins Maran said in another tweet PTI VGN SA SA
Chennai Feb 22 PTI The DMK is clearly on its way to make a clean sweep of the urban civic polls in Tamil Nadu and has wrested the western region convincingly considered a bastion of the main opposition AIADMK Buoyed by one more huge electoral win DMK workers celebrated the victory across the state by bursting fire crackers distributing sweets and hailing party chief M K Stalins leadership Though the DMK won the 2021 Assembly election and formed the government its arch rival AIADMK had won all the 10 Assembly seats in Coimbatore region and for a long time western Tamil Nadu is seen as a fortress of the AIADMK As per results available and trends for this region the DMKs victory score in urban civic polls has crossed about 75 per cent here Right after the last years Assembly win the DMK has been focussing on the western areas and the party appointed Minister V Senthil Balaji hailing from the Karur in the region as party in-charge for Coimbatore Many of Balajis supporters in social media hailed the victory lauding him for the turnaround in DMKs prospects in this part of the state Notably the DMK has also won in Thondamuthur town panchayat the home turf of former AIADMK Minister S P Velumani considered a heavy weight in the region After decades the ruling party has captured the Gobichettypalayam municipality the native of another AIADMK stalwart KA Sengottaiyan Stalin who had asserted that victory is sure and duty and responsibility is more said that the win in urban civic polls reflected the faith people have on the DMK government Out of the total 1374 wards in corporations the DMK has so far won 425 and the AIADMK 75 In municipalities of the 3843 ward member seats the DMK till now has won 1832 and the AIADMK 494 As regards town panchayats the ruling party emerged victorious in 4261 seats out of the total 7621 The AIADMK has got 1178 town panchayat seats The declaration of results is underway and the counting of votes started at 8 AM today As more and more results of victory poured in from municipal corporation areas municipalities and town panchayats DMK veteran and party general secretary Duraimurugan called on Stalin here and greeted him on the partys continuing winning streak DMK MPs A Raja and Dayanidhi Maran were among others who visited Stalin Maran tweeted We wholeheartedly thank all the voters for their immense faith and trust In yet another monumental victory the people of Tamil Nadu have voted overwhelmingly in support of the DMK in the LocalBodyElections2022 Under the visionary leadership of the Honble CM Thiru mkstalin let us work towards taking TN to greater heights glory DMKwins Maran said in another tweet PTI VGN SA SA
