Tamil Nadu, Puducherry Assembly elections end peacefully
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Puducherry: A voter registers her name to cast vote for the second phase of 2019 Lok Sabha elections, at a polling booth in Puducherry on April 18, 2019. (Photo: IANS/PIB) Image Source: IANS News
Puducherry: Voters wait in a queue to cast their votes for the second phase of 2019 Lok Sabha elections, at a polling booth in Puducherry on April 18, 2019. (Photo: IANS/PIB) Image Source: IANS News
Chennai/Puducherry, April 6 : Curtains came down on the single-phase Assembly polls in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry at 7 p.m. on Tuesday. Polling was peaceful across the state and the Union Territory.
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Chennai, April 6
At a time when eligible voters of Tamil Nadu are casting their vote to elect a new government in the state, VK Sasikala, the close aide of late Chief Minister J.Jayalalithaa, could not vote as her name was removed from the electoral rolls, said her counsel Raja Senthoor Pandian.
According to him, Sasikala s name figured in the Thousand Lights assembly constituency.
She was residing at Jayalalithaa s residence at Poes Garden here.
The AIADMK government later took over that house to convert it into a memorial after Jayalalithaa s death in 2016.
Sasikala, who was jailed for four years on corruption charges was released couple of months back.
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In Tamil Nadu, a total of 3,998 candidates were in the fray seeking support from the 6.28 crore electorate
Tuesday April 6, 2021 11:33 PM, IANS
Chennai/Puducherry: Curtains came down on the single-phase Assembly polls in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry at 7 p.m. on Tuesday. Polling was peaceful across the state and the Union Territory.
While computing the final turnout will take time, in Tamil Nadu, the voter turnover as of 5 p.m., was 63.65 per cent and in Puducherry, it was about 78 per cent, officials said.
Voting for the lone Kanniyakumari Lok Sabha seat where the bypoll was simultaneously held came to an end.
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V.K. Sasikala, close confidante of late Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, convicted in the disproportionate assets case, will be released from the Parappanna Agrahara prison in Bengaluru on the morning of January 27.
Sasikala will complete her four-year prison term on that day. “She is eligible for release on January 27 during the morning hours,” prison officials reportedly informed her lawyer Raja Senthoor Pandian. Sasikala had earlier applied for remission of her sentence but in vain.
Her vow
On the day she left to serve her prison sentence in Bengaluru in February 2017, she had visited Jayalalithaa’s burial place at the Marina where she was seen fervently slapping the surface thrice taking a vow.