New Delhi, May 4 -- In one of the most surprising and talked-about upsets of the Tamil Nadu Assembly Elections, KV Vijay Damu, who formerly worked as an auto driver and currently owns an auto consultancy business as per his affidavit filing, has won the Royapuram constituency with a comfortable margin.

Representing actor-turned-politician's debutant party Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK), Dhamu defeated two of the most powerful political legacies in the state. He won the seat with over 59,000 votes, and a margin of 14,000 votes over his nearest rival, A Subair Khan of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) party, according to information available on the Election Commission of India (ECI) website. AIADMK's D Jayakumar was pushed to the third spot...