Voting begins in Pudukottai assembly by-poll
June 12th, 2012 - 9:34 am ICT by IANSChennai, June 12 (IANS) Voting in the by-election for the Pudukottai assembly constituency began at 8 a.m. Tuesday.
The by-poll in Pudukottai, 350 km from here, was necessitated following the death of CPI legislator S.P. Muthukumaran in a road accident in April.
It would be a straight fight between the ruling AIADMK and DMDK, with DMK and others boycotting the polls.
The DMK had charged that the opposition parties will not get justice from the Election Commission.
The CPI decided not to contest the poll considering the practical weakness in facing the by-poll.
The two major choices before the Pudukottai voters are the ruling AIADMK candidate Karthik Thondaiman and the opposition party DMDK’s N. Jahir Hussain.
Pudukottai constituency has 224 polling booths and over 190,000 voters.
Currently in the 235-member Tamil Nadu assembly, AIADMK has 150 members (including the speaker) followed by DMDK’s 29, DMK’s 23, CPI-M’s 10, CPI’s eight, Congress’s five and PMK’s three, among others.
- Polling in Pudukottai ends, 65 percent turnout recorded (Second Lead) - Jun 12, 2012
- Brisk voting in Pudukottai by-poll in Tamil Nadu (Lead) - Jun 12, 2012
- 73 percent polling in Tamil Nadu's Pudukottai by-poll (Third Lead) - Jun 12, 2012
- Pudukottai to go for polls Tuesday - Jun 11, 2012
- AIADMK wins Pudukottai by-election in Tamil Nadu - Jun 15, 2012
- Congress faces setback in Andhra, Trinamool wins UP bypoll (Roundup) - Jun 15, 2012
- 13 in fray in Sankarankoil by-poll - Mar 04, 2012
- Tamil Nadu would soon become surplus in power: Jayalalithaa - Jun 09, 2012
- Jayalalithaa deputes two MPs to attend Badal's swearing-in - Mar 10, 2012
- Stage set for Tamil Nadu assembly by-poll Sunday - Mar 17, 2012
- All arrangements for peaceful Sankarankoil by-poll: Poll panel - Feb 18, 2012
- Polling begins for Tamil Nadu assembly by-poll - Mar 18, 2012
- Around 75 percent voting in Tamil Nadu assembly by-poll (Second Lead) - Mar 18, 2012
- AIADMK leading in Sankarankoil bypoll - Mar 21, 2012
- Polling ends in Tamil Nadu's Trichy West, Puducherry's Indira Nagar - Oct 13, 2011
Tags: aiadmk, choices, congress, constituency, CPI, dmdk, dmk, election commission, hussain, jahir, legislator, opposition parties, opposition party, pmk, poll, polling booths, polls, road accident