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All three major contestants hopeful of victory
The three major contenders – DMK candidate N Maruthu Ganesh, AIADMK candidate E Madhusudhanan and sidelined leader TTV Dinakaran, expressed confidence of winning the bypoll to RK Nagar seat after filing their nomination papers.
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Maruthu Ganesh claimed that the state of non-development for over six years in the constituency would work in his favour. “It would help secure the seat for the DMK combine, and would end this anti-people regime,” he said.
Fisheries Minister D Jayakumar, who accompanied Madhusudhanan, asserted their margin to be a minimum of 50,000 votes. Lambasting Dinakaran of having no locus standi to use the party flag, he alleged that people from other districts were brought to express a show of strength and thus violating the code during nomination process. “You should understand that he is contesting in the legitimate ‘Two Leaves’ symbol. Our lone contender is the DMK not anyone else,” he said.
Madhusudhanan maintained that the unified AIADMK would work like a doublebarrel gun. “Last time, we had a single-barrel weapon and we have added one more to it. We also have the party symbol. It would have its obvious impact,” the AIADMK candidate replied to a query on same contestants being fielded again.
Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam, who differed on the contest aspect, stated that everyone in the fray is their contestant and that he/ she would emerge victorious.
Meanwhile, Dinakaran observed that the people of RK Nagar were aware of his contest and the misdeeds of the ruling dispensation at the behest of the BJP.
“People’s verdict is ultimate. They’re witness to what the BJP had been doing to the state and to the party in the past 10 months,” he said.
RO to decide on ‘hat’ symbol: EC tells Delhi HC
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission EC) on Friday told the Delhi High Court that the ‘hat’ symbol was free and the Returning Officer (RO) will decide to whom it could be allotted after the filing of nominations for the by-elections to the R K Nagar assembly segment. The Election Commission submitted before Justice S P Garg that the Returning Officer would take a decision by December 7 after the nominations are received. The submission by the Election Commission’s lawyer came in response to the High Court’s query whether the Sasikala-TTV Dinakaran group of AIADMK can use the ‘hat’ symbol for filing nominations.
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