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TN polls: Actor Kamal Haasan defeated by BJP Mahila Morcha president in Coimbatore South
In the Tamil Nadu Assembly election, actor Kamal Haasan of the Makkal Needhi Maiam was defeated by BJP Mahila Morcha president Vanathi Srinivasan in Coimbatore South constituency.
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UPDATED: May 4, 2021 06:12 IST
In the Tamil Nadu Assembly election, actor Kamal Haasan of the Makkal Needhi Maiam was defeated by BJP Mahila Morcha president Vanathi Srinivasan in Coimbatore South constituency. (Photo: PTI file)
In the Tamil Nadu Assembly election, actor and leader of Makkal Needhi Maiam Kamal Haasan was defeated by BJP Mahila Morcha president Vanathi Srinivasan in Coimbatore South constituency.
Congress candidate Mayura Jayakumar was relegated to the third position.
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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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.
Vanathi Srinivasan versus Kamal Haasan.
Cinema star and Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) chief Kamal Haasan lost the Tamil Nadu assembly elections to BJP national womenâs wing president Vanathi Srinivasan from the Coimbatore South assembly constituency.
Vanathi polled 53,209 votes whereas Hassan bagged 51,481 votes in a neck-to-neck battle whose result was announced late last night.
Mayura Jayakumar, the state working president of the Congress party, had also fought the contest on a DMK ticket. She finished third in the race after 41,426 individuals cast their vote for her.
Hassan had maintained a sizable lead over Vanathi Srinivasan since the counting of the votes began from early Sunday morning onward,