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Chennai: With the AIADMK boycotting the Vikravandi bypoll, the ruling DMK has won the bypoll with a sizeable margin of 67,757 votes securing about 1.24 lakh votes of the 1.95 lakh votes polled...
Maintaining that a chunk of AIADMK votes may have shifted to the DMK, political commentator Raveendran Duraisamy said the outcome of the bypoll was the result of caste-based polarisation on the ground in favour of the DMK..
When AIADMK announced it was boycotting the Vikravandi bypoll, the move was seen by political analysts as an attempt by the party to shy away from yet another electoral defeat and to indirectly send a message to the PMK with an eye on the 2026 assembly polls...
Chances of them joining together looks so thin. If they dont join hands, the PMK joining hands with the AIADMK also does not seem like a possibility in the near future, he said.. Duraisamy added that one is yet to see whether the 2026 assembly polls will be a DMK vs AIADMK fight or a fight between INDIA bloc vs NDA...
Contrasting the AIADMKs ability to keep its flock together with that of the DMK, which came under fire for the Kallakurichi hooch tragedy and the murder of the state BSP chief, Moorthy said the Stalin-led partys strategy to keep the alliance intact and reassure voters ensured its bypoll win...
