All DMK Mayoral Candidates Win In Tamil Nadu
NDTV
After MK Stalin's action, allies thanked him profusely and said it was a historic step that would further increase their faith on him and promote goodwill.
All the 20 mayoral candidates of the ruling DMK and its ally Congress' nominee, an autorickshaw driver, on Friday were elected in indirect polls to the top posts in civic bodies in Tamil Nadu and they took charge.
Indirect polls to elect chairpersons of municipalities and town panchayats, however, witnessed tussles and high drama in several regions while DMK ward members, violating the party's diktat, defeated nominees of alliance parties in a string of local bodies.
It includes posts allotted by the DMK in civic bodies for elected representatives of allies including the CPI(M) and Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK).
After angered ruling party's partners cried foul, DMK president and Chief Minister M K Stalin expressed profound regret to allies and instructed his party ward members who defeated nominees of alliance parties to immediately resign from their posts. Mr Stalin warned them that if they did not quit, they would be expelled from the party's primary membership.
