AIADMK loses impregnable fortress in Coimbatore district, reduced to one seat

As counting of votes for the Assembly elections concluded connected Monday evening, the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) faced 1 of its biggest decision successful the 10 constituencies successful Coimbatore district, which stood arsenic an impregnable fortress successful the Dravidian major’s stronghold successful the Kongu region.

The debacle has unsettled the enactment arsenic it could clasp lone 1 seat, won by seasoned S.P. Velumani successful Thondamuthur constituency. Six of its incumbent MLAs who contested this election, namely Amman K. Arjunan, P.R.G. Arunkumar, K.R. Jayaram, Pollachi V. Jayaraman, S. Damodaran and V.P. Kandasamy were defeated.