Results for the Tamil Nadu Urban Local Body Election Results which was held last Saturday (February 19) were announced today.
The DMK has emerged as the winner securing majority of the seats in town panchayats, municipalities and courporations.
The BJP which is not as strong as the Dravidian parties in Tamil Nadu have secured a considerable number of seats. As a result, the DMK and its minions in the media resorted to creating a negative rhetoric around the BJP’s emergence in the local body polls.
In light of this, fake news was peddled against BJP candidate of Ward No. 134.Uma Anandan.
DMK MLA TRB Rajaa who is also the head of the party’s IT Wing spread fake news that Uma Anandan had managed to secure only 8 votes, and was in for a huge loss in the election.
Other prominent mainstream news outlets and DMK sympathizers too peddled the same including One India Tamil, Samaya (Times of India Tamil), Puthiya Thalaimurai
However, proving them all wrong, she won with 5635 votes, against the combined force of DMK, Congress and 10 other parties that only got 3503 votes. AIADMK too secured only 2655 votes.
This is BJP’s first victory in Chennai Corporation in this election. When reporters asked her how she is going to tackle 140 DMK candidates who have won across Chennai, she replied with actor Rajnikanth’s Sivaji dialogue saying, “Singam Single aah dhaan varum.”
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