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'Outsider' Durai Vaiko seals victory with over 50% of votes in Tiruchy
The New Indian Express
|June 05, 2024
IT was nothing short of a bittersweet victory for MDMK leader Durai Vaiko who threw his hat in the Lok Sabha election ring this year by contesting as INDIA bloc's candidate for Tiruchy and emerged victorious by securing about 5.4 lakh votes in the constituency.
From having to pursue a legal battle with the Election Commission of India (ECI) in order to contest the election in a separate symbol to overcoming his identity as an "outsider", Vaiko faced many a challenge before securing a win margin of 3.13 lakh votes.
In the results announced on Tuesday, Durai Vaiko defeated 37 other candidates to secure 5,42,213 votes of the total 10,49,210 polled in the constituency. AIADMK candidate P Karuppaiah came a distant second by securing 2,29,119 votes.
This story is from the June 05, 2024 edition of The New Indian Express.
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