Chidambaram losses then wins seat in India election 2009
May 16th, 2009 - 7:51 pm ICT by John Le Fevre
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After first loosing his seat by 3,555 votes, India’s Union Minister of Home Affairs, Palaniappan Chidambaram, was later told he had in fact won after a recount was conducted.
Chidambaram, one of the most prominent cabinet ministers of the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) coalition government led by Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, was at the center of a Bush-style shoe-throwing incident last month when a Sikh journalist, Jarnail Singh, a reporter with Hindi daily Dainik Jagran, hurled a shoe at him during a press conference.
Chidambaram, who has held the seat for the Sivaganga constituency of Tamil Nadu covering the southern-most part of India, was initialy informed by election officials he had lost to Raja Kannappan from the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) party
Chidambaram immediately asked for a recount and a check found he had in fact retained the seat.
More than 428.4 million people, or about 60 percent of eligibale voters turned out re-elect the Congress party of India (INC)-lead coalition of Dr. Mammohan Singh for a second, successive five-year term.
In doing so Dr Singh becomes only the second prime minister in the country’s history to win back-to-back parliamentary elections. The first to do so was India’s first prime minister Jawahar Lal Nehru.
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May 17th, 2009 at 12:50 am
This is forgery. Election commission should have intervened. Everybody knows the truth. Mr. Raja kannappan won with 7000 votes difference but within a few mins they declared that P. Chithambaram won in the Sivanganga constituency with 3348 votes. DMK party masked the democractic rights of the people with currency and power.
May 17th, 2009 at 1:36 am
The congress should work on its tamil nadu state unit, otherwise it would have to bow down to their regional allies like dmk. Ministeral posts for alagiri, kangmozhi, wat is this country coming to. Alagiri owns the largest numbers of pirated cd stores, rowdy gangs, taking bribes and coercing authorities, prominently RS 500 for every vote to the extent of getting election ids and voting. Kangmozhi, i heard her first speech in upper house, she couldn’t even spell those english words she had written for herself correctly, god save the government.
May 17th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
Kanimozhi was a lawyer and you can’t say a wrong word about her k
May 17th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Though this issue gives rise to doubts about the victory of Mr.PC, it could be true also that Mr.PC won by 3,354 more votes, giving the benefit of doubt to him; When AIADMK won the Villupuram seat only by 2,797 more votes and Trichy seat by 4,425 more votes, why not the difference in Sivaganga seat is only 3,354 seats; So I feel the victory of Mr.PC is not fake but a genuine one; Hearty Congrats to Mr.PC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 17th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
Whoever has commented please go and see yourself the city Sivaganga. Then decide whether Chidambaram should win there or not….
May 17th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
india politics like a big bussiness invest first then get times million…. they can give each vote even 5000 rupees just imagine how many voters in the part of city…… no body can safe india…
May 17th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
I disagree with RK Rajan. There was an inside news that Periyakarrupu(DMK Minister)and Alagiri got involved in the re-voting issue. How is that the Electronic voting machine went wrong?
@RK Rajan - Do you know what Mr. PC has done for the Sivaganga Constituency- nothing much (Banks). People are dissatisfied with PC.
May 17th, 2009 at 11:33 pm
i agree what vidya said……
May 18th, 2009 at 3:10 am
It is not known to many, but Mr.chidambaram did undertake many delayed public sector projects in the district during his tenure. Also when the mumbai attacks rocked the country, besides working with the central government, he undertook great care and personally supervised writing condolence letters to victims relatives in the constituency and offered compensation. It might have appeared he was obsessed with central issues, but he was more in-tune with his own constituency as well.
May 18th, 2009 at 11:26 am
Recounting is a game played by the politicians. That shouldn’t have happened in this democracy. Election Commission should intervene and make laws so that it shouldn’t happen in the future..
May 18th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Reply to Chincha:
Had you ever been to Allahabad? This constituency has given three great prime ministers (Nehru / Indira / Rajiv)to our great country; but the condition of this constituency……………. so, Sivaganga is much much much better (I had been to Sivaganga few times);
May 18th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
To Vidya & Jack
I share your doubt of involvement of DMK Minister & Mr.Alagiri; But this is only a doubt and such kind of doubts are very common during the counting times; EC is an independent government authority and it’s decisions can be challenged in a court of law; so need to worry about the result rigging by anybody and even though, some doubts prevail, v hv to accept the winning of Mr.PC; He is one of the architects of Indian Economy which survived at its best amidst global serious recession; by that way the whole of our great nation India benefitted including Sivaganga; Inspite of this, Mr.PC has personally also contributed towards the infrastructural requirements of Sivaganga;
May 19th, 2009 at 10:35 am
The fact is there was not recounting, he won in the last round. if there was a recounting do you thing Jaya and ADAMK will be staying quiet?
who said Kanimoli is a lawyer?? ha ha haha
May 20th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
PC’s dramatic win was expected… it was expected that he will not get majority votes this time, and it was also expected that DMK will somehow muscle their way and bail him out, after all he is a good pet of MK… Reasons for his poor performance - nothing to do with what he did for Sivaganga or not, nothing to do with Congress+DMK votes… it has more to do with his caste which decided to vote him out this time due to non-political casteist reasons… they tried their best, but finally it was MK and MKA’s money and muscle helped him scrap through - though with a literal black face …
May 21st, 2009 at 12:22 pm
I fully agree with Mr.Rajan regarding the decision of Mr.PC’s own caste to vote him out; however, the muscle & money power play is questionable only (and nothing more than that) since EC announced y’day that the election results of Sivaganga & Virudhunagar seats is declared fair;
May 27th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
The Chidambaram election victory is to be investigated by the elction commissioner. The election officers were reported at early that Chidambaram was detrailing by 300 votes but in the second counting his win was announced by the election authority.
June 17th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
It seems that Madam Jeya & Mr.Kannappan dropped this issue and hence it may be persumed that no investigation is warranted;