Impressive victories of two senior DMK leaders
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Virudhunagar
The victories of two former State Ministers, K.K.S.S.R. Ramachandran and Thangam Thennarasu of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam are significant in their own unique ways.
While Mr. Ramachandran gets the distinction of having won Assembly elections for ninth time, Mr. Thennarasu has won with one of the biggest margins of over 60,000 votes.
Mr. Ramachandran defeated former State Minister, Vaigaichelvan of AIADMK with a margin of 39,034 votes. While Mr. Ramachandran got 91,040 votes his close rival got 52,006 votes.
Mr. Ramachandran has achieved this feat in 11 attempts, a rare record for any candidate from southern districts. The veteran leader had won six times from Sattur Assembly seat out of seven times he had contested since 1977. Once, he got elected from Vilathikulam in 1989 on AIADMK (Jayalalithaa faction).