Chennai, Oct. 9 -- Despite turning a cakewalk into a contest, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) president Joseph Vijay retained his charisma and political aura intact with a comfortable victory in the bypoll for two constituencies to the Assembly.
The results declared on Friday has left the two Left parties bruised while pushing the AIADMK, which had won both the seats in the April Assembly election, to the third place after the DMK.
Rubbing salt to the AIADMK's wounds was the fact that the duo who won on the AIADMK ticket and defected to the TVK after resigning within 20 days of their election - Maragatham Kumaravel (Madurantakam) and P Sathyabama (Dharapuram), were renominated by the TVK. Further, the DMK had ...