The All India Anna Dravida Munetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) candidate P. Saroja
on Sunday won the Yercaud by-election, securing 1,42,771 votes. Her
immediate rival V. Maran of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam secured 64,655
votes
The newly-elected MLA P Saroja thanked Chief Minister Jayalalithaa for announcing her as the candidate. She was addressing newsmen at the counting centre. “The victory is her (CM’s) effort and not mine. I also thank the voters,” she said and reiterated that she will complete the unfulfilled works that were left behind by her husband and former MLA C. Perumal.
Chief Minister and AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa on Sunday described her party’s huge margin in the by-poll to Yercaud constituency as a mark of acknowledgement of people’s approval for various welfare programmes implemented by her government in the last two and a half years
Note
This was the fourth byelection since the AIADMK returned to power in May 2011 and the party had won all the by-elections
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