CHENNAI: Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa returned to the Tamil Nadu assembly on Tuesday by a record victory margin from the Radkhakrishnan Nagar constituency, Hindustan Times reported.
Jayalalithaa polled 160,432 votes while her nearest rival, Communist Party of India’s (CPI) C. Mahendran, got just 9,710 votes — a victory margin of 150,722 votes. The total electorate in the constituency was around 245,000, and the chief minister bagged more than 50 percent of that. Tamil Nadu Gov. K. Rosaiah congratulated her over her landslide win, an official statement said.
An elated Jayalalithaa thanked All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) supporters for her massive victory and said the result was a forerunner for the 2016 assembly elections.
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Jayalalithaa wins Tamil Nadu seat
Jayalalithaa wins Tamil Nadu seat
China fires rockets in military drills in Taiwan Strait: AFPTV Live
PINGTAN, China: China fired rockets in the Taiwan Strait on Tuesday morning, AFP footage showed, as a second day of live-fire drills kicked off around the self-ruled island.
AFP journalists in Pingtan — a Chinese island that is the closest point to Taiwan’s main island — saw a volley of rockets blasting into the air at around 9am (0100 GMT), leaving trails of white smoke.
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