People's Democracy
(Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
No.
20
May 24, 2009
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Vol. XXXIII
No.
20 May 24, 2009 |
TAMILNADU
AIADMK And Allies
Win 12 Lok Sabha
Seats
THE outcome of the elections to the 15th Lok
Sabha in
Tamilnadu has been a mixed bag. The ruling DMK-led front including the
Congress
party and the Vidudhali Chiruthigal Katchi (a dalit political outfit)
won in 28
of the 40 seats in Tamilnadu and the union territory of Pudhuchery,
while the
remaining 12 seats had been bagged by the AIADMK-led alliance, with
nine for AIADMK
and one each for CPI(M), CPI and MDMK.
The election campaign in Tamilnadu was marred
by the
brazen misuse of the official machinery, vulgar display of money power
and
planned violence let loose by the ruling DMK using goondas and
anti-social
elements. Such corrupt practices were at its peak in the
From the beginning, it was widely reported in
the
media that Azhagiri�s election campaign would be a repetition of the
�Thirumangalam
model�. Thirumangalam was a state assembly constituency where a
by-election was
held recently, and where the DMK indulged in massive �cash for votes�
money
distribution. It had also resorted to gross misuse of official
machinery. The
Election Commission itself had commented derisively of the large scale
violations of model code of conduct by the ruling party. At the
end,
however, Azhagiri won this seat by a margin of around 1,40,000 votes,
while he
had vowed to win by a margin of 3 lakh votes!
The CPI(M) won the Coimbatore Lok Sabha seat
this time
where its candidate P R Natarajan defeated his nearest rival R Prabhu,
former union
minister, belonging to the Congess party by a margin of 38,664 votes.
The CPI
candidate P Lingam was declared elected from the Tenkasi seat. The MDMK
won the
Erode seat. The AIADMK candidates registered victories in South
Chennai,
Tiruvallore (Reserved), Villupuram (Reserved), Mayaladuthurai, Trichy,
Karur,
CPI(M) regains
The Party state secretariat met at Chennai on
May 18,
2009. The meeting adopted a resolution thanking the voters of Tamilnadu
who had
exercised their franchise in favour of the candidates of the AIADMK-led
alliance. It also thanked the voters of
The Party state secretariat condemned the
large scale
misuse of official machinery and violence indulged in by the ruling DMK
and its
allies throughout the state. It demanded of the state government
to
withdraw all the cases foisted on the leading functionaries of the
CPI(M) and
its allies on the basis of false complaints lodged by the ruling party
men.
The meeting also condemned the attack on the
office of
film director Bharathiraja who had been campaigning against the DMK and
Congress and demanded immediate action against the culprits.
The secretariat vowed to continue to champion
the
interests of the people in the state and launch sustained campaign and
struggle
on the demands of the people, independently and in cooperation with
other
secular opposition parties in the state.
PARLIAMENT ELECTION -2009
Total electorate - 11,63,328
Total votes polled - 8,24,407
P.R. Natarajan (CPI-M) - 2,93,165
R.Prabhu(Cong) - 2,54,501
E.R.Eswaran(Kongu Peravai) - 1,28,070
R.Pandian(DMDK) - 73,188
G.K.S. Selvakumar(BJP) - 37,909
Total electorate - 10,22,421
Total votes polled - 7,90,902
M.K.Alagiri(DMK) - 4,31,295
P.Mohan(CPI-M) - 2,90,310
K.Kaviarasu(DMDK) - 54,419
KANYAKUMARI
Total electorate - 11,73,308
Total votes polled - 7,65,286
Helen Davidson (DMK) - 3,19,968
P. Radhakrishnan (BJP) - 2,54,324
A.V. Bellarmin (CPI-M) - 85,572
