Presently the sections of voters in Aravakurichi in Karur district and Thanjavur constituencies are ruing the fact that the Election Commission’s historic action of rescinding polls due to large-scale bribing of voters in the two constituencies has sullied their images.
The former vice president of the Builders’ Association of India K. Padmanabhan has told that the principal contenders must realize their folly, due to which all other innocent contestants and the general public are forced to suffer.
A librarian P. Subashini rues that sections of voters even now expect money from the contestants and if the candidates are changed, the dole might become dearer and for this squalid situation, both the DMK and the AIADMK must be blamed as they have corrupted people of the State.
Sources close to AIADMK candidate and former Minister V Senthil Balaji has said that he was confident of defeating the sitting DMK MLA K.C. Palanisamy in Aravakurichi and the Thanjavur AIADMK candidate M Rengasamy also hoped to sail through. She was hoping to defeat Rengasamy, but now with the AIADMK in power, there is an apprehension that the voters might plump for the ruling party in a by-election.
