BJP reduced to one seat in Tamil Nadu Assembly, top leaders defeated

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M. Bhojarajan of the BJP receiving his winning certificate from the polling serviceman  successful  Udhagamandalam connected  Monday.

M. Bhojarajan of the BJP receiving his winning certificate from the polling serviceman successful Udhagamandalam connected Monday. | Photo Credit: M. SATHYAMOORTHY

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which contested arsenic a constituent of the AIADMK-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) successful Tamil Nadu, suffered a monolithic setback successful the 2026 Assembly elections. The enactment won lone 1 of the 27 seats it contested.

In the 2021 Assembly elections, the enactment had won 4 seats. In this election, M. Bhojarajan unsocial won the Udhagamandalam Assembly Constituency by a slim borderline of 976 votes. All the salient faces of the enactment mislaid the election. These see Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting L. Murugan (Avanashi), party’s State president Nainar Nagenthran (Sattur), erstwhile Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan (Mylapore), BJP Mahila Morcha nationalist president Vanathi Srinivasan (Coimbatore North), incumbent MLA M.R. Gandhi (Nagercoil), and S. Vijayadharani (Vilavancode).

Published - May 04, 2026 08:50 p.m. IST

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