RK Nagar by-polls News

Dhinakaran's victory came as a major jolt to the ruling AIADMK

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) high command is not going to be too happy about this. In the contest between the None Of The Above (NOTA) and BJP during the RK Nagar by-polls results, NOTA managed to pull in more votes than the saffron party candidate Karu Nagarajan.

Sidelined All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) leader TTV Dhinakaran on Friday filed his nomination for the RK Nagar by-polls and said that they will "teach a lesson to their opponents" in the upcoming elections.

The AIADMK on Monday announced that the party's governing council has been authorised to select its candidate for the by-election to the RK Nagar Assembly constituency.

Taking on P Chidambaram over his remarks on the influence of black money in the RK Nagar by-polls, Union Information and Broadcasting Minister M Venkaiah Naidu on Monday alleged that black money surfaced during the former UPA regime while demanding an explanation from the former finance minister on the same.

Following the cancellation of the by-polls in Chennai`s R.K. Nagar constituency, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) on Monday demanded the dismissal of Edappadi K. Palaniswami-led Tamil Nadu Government and immediate action against the culprits.