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Superstar and Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) founder, Kamal Haasan lost the Coimbatore South seat by a margin of 1,500 votes against BJP women s wing national President, Vanathi Srinivasan.
Congress candidate Mayura Jayakumar was relegated to the third position.
Actor-turned-politician Kamal HassanSUJIT JAISWAL/AFP/Getty Images
With the defeat of Kamal Haasan in his electoral debut, his MNM failed to open the account in the Tamil Nadu Assembly polls.
In the 2016 polls, Amman K. Arjunan of the AIADMK had won the seat, while it had gone to the party s Challenger Dorai in 2011. In this election, there was some friction after the AIADMK s NDA ally, the BJP, was allotted the seat but the matter was resolved.
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Tamil Nadu polls: Panneerselvam attempts hat-trick from Bodinayakkanur constituency ANI | Updated: Apr 05, 2021 18:10 IST
New Delhi [India], April 5 (ANI): Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil NaduO Panneerselvam, who has been representing the Bodinayakkanur constituency since 2011, is attempting a hat-trick from here in the April 6 assembly election.
Panneerselvam, considered as the most loyal minister of late Jayalalithaa was chosen to follow in Amma s footsteps.
When Jayalalithaa was jailed in 2014, Panneerselvam was anointed chief minister as a stop-gap arrangement.
In the 2016 Tamil Nadu Assembly election, AIADMK candidate Paneerselvam retained Bodinayakkanur by a margin of 15, 428 votes. He had also won the seat in the 2011 polls.
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