The CM of Tamilnadu Jayalalitha has told after the electoral victory at her residence at Poes Garden that her party and she is indebted to the people of Tamil Nadu for giving them this historic victory.
The people of Tamil Nadu have armed the ruling AIADMK with a total of 134 seats, but also gave the DMK-led combine 98 seats.
There were upsets in the AIADMK too with some of the more prominent candidates, including Ministers and former Ministers, not making it past the post and on the contrary, most of the key candidates of the DMK have won satisfactorily.
For the AIADMK cadre, the victory was made sweeter by the fact that the party was retaining power, for only the second time since MGR did so in 1984 and scenes of celebration on one side of Dr. Radhakrishnan Salai at AIADMK chief Ms. Jayalalitha’s Poes Garden residence were in sharp relief to the despondency and disbelief.
Previously the Congress leader Kamaraj had enjoyed two terms as Chief Minister between 1954 and 1963 by barring these exceptions, Tamil Nadu has always given the mandate alternately to the AIADMK and the DMK.
