Dhinakaran wins R K Nagar byelection with huge margin, setback for AIADMK

He has secured over 40,000 votes' lead against AIADMK candidate E Madhusudhanan

T T V Dhinakaran, nephew of V K Sasikala, has won the byelection in Dr Radhakrishnan Nagar Assembly constituency with a lead of around 40,707 votes against the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) canditdate, and much ahead of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) candidate, at the end of the final round of counting. The competition was between the AIADMK candidate E Madhusudhanan and Dhinakaran, while the main opposition DMK was far behind the race compared to these two candidates.

The counting, which has been held in a total of 19 rounds across 258 booths each having 14 electronic