RK Nagar bypoll results: NOTA gets more votes than BJP candidate

As many as 2,373 voters from the constituency did not want to vote for anyone, leaving Nagarajan with a meagre 1,417 votes

By: PTI
Chennai | December 24, 2017 07:41 PM IST

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"It is submitted that use of NOTA in the upcoming poll has become an issue of debate among the political parties and therefore, a proper consensus should be made before the use of NOTA in election in Rajya Sabha," said the BJP

This is one record the BJP candidate who contested the RK Nagar bypoll will not be proud of, as NOTA got more votes than he did.

While the main battle was confined to the giants – TTV Dhinakaran and AIADMK veteran E Madhusudhanan, in an interesting aside, NOTA pipped the saffron party’s Karu Nagarajan. As many as 2,373 voters from the constituency did not want to vote for anyone and pressed the EVM button for None of the Above (NOTA), leaving Nagarajan with a meagre 1,417 votes.

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This was his second electoral failure in as many years. Nagarajan, a regular face in Tamil TV channels who puts forth his party’s views on various issues, had unsuccessfully contested the 2016 assembly polls from Mylapore constituency in this city. AIADMK had then won the seat.

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