India, May 4 -- Results for the key Villinaur seat in Puducherry have been declared with a big upset for Leader of the Opposition and senior DMK leader R. Siva as he lost to All India NR Congress's B Ravicoumar with a margin of 1970 votes, as per the Election Commission data.

Siva serves as the Leader of Opposition in the Puducherry Legislative Assembly and represented the Villianur constituency. Track updates on Puducherry results

R. Siva was born in 1967 in Puducherry and entered politics through the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), gradually emerging as one of its prominent leaders in the Union Territory. His political career began in the mid-1990s when he was first elected to the Puducherry Legislative Assembly in 1996 from the Orle...