CHENNAI: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) on Saturday introduced to boycott the Vikravandi Assembly constituency by-polls which are scheduled for July 10. The Vikravandi Assembly constituency by-polls are scheduled for July 10, which was necessitated by the premature demise of DMK MLA Pugazhenthi in April.
Former Tamil Nadu CM and AIADMK chief Edappadi Okay Palaniswami attacked the DMK authorities and alleged that DMK will take pleasure in “violence, money power” and that the elections won’t be performed freely and pretty. “The ruling party, DMK, will indulge in violence, money power and will not give people the freedom to cast their votes. Elections will not be conducted freely and fairly, so AIADMK is boycotting this election,” Palaniswami stated.
AIADMK senior chief and former Tamil Nadu minister D Jayakumar alleged that within the meeting bye election, DMK killed the democracy and didn’t comply with the foundations. “We (AIADMK) have boycotted the Vikravandi assembly bye election. The DMK is a party that kills democracy. In the past, in the Erode assembly byelections, the democratic way was not followed. People were made to lock inside a hall like animals in the name of the campaign. Election officers did not take any steps to curtain their undemocratic actions,” he alleged.
He additional stated that the elections wouldn’t be held freely and pretty. “DMK will try all their short cut ways to win the bye election so we will boycott the election. We announce the boycott for the bye election alone as of now,” he added. When requested if their choice wouldn’t enable the BJP to develop within the elections, he stated, “We have taken a decision based on current reality. The NDA, or Naam Tamilar Party, is not big but AIADMK is the biggest party.”
Earlier on April 9, The MLA of the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) from Vikravandi meeting constituency in Tamil Nadu’s Villupuram district, N Pugazhenthi, handed away aged 71. Pugazhenthi, hailing from Athiyur Thiruvathi in Villupuram district, joined the DMK in 1973. He served because the chairman of Koliyanur Panchayat union in 1996 and was appointed because the Villipuram district president after state minister Okay Ponmudy stepped down from the put up.
The DMK MLA contested the 2019 bypoll in Vikravandi following the demise of DMK’s Radhamani however misplaced the seat. The get together fielded him once more in 2021 through which he defeated AIADMK’s R Muthamilselvan.
