TMC will do well in Assembly – Moopanar

CHENNAI, OCT 11: TMC president G K Moopanar yesterday said the party's stand against communalism and corruption had found good support in...

CHENNAI, OCT 11: TMC president G K Moopanar yesterday said the party’s stand against communalism and corruption had found good support in the Lok Sabha elections. However, it did not win enough seats as the people felt there was no point in voting for the TMC in a Lok Sabha election when it did not project a Prime Ministerial candidate.

Thanking the voters who supported the TMC-led front in the Lok Sabha elections Moopanar, in a statement, made it clear that the party had accepted the people’s verdict without any vacillation of mind.

He expressed confidence that the stand taken by his party to oppose both communalism and corruption would take it to the threshold of victory in the Assembly elections in 2001.

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He opined that the front had failed to win a few constituencies where it had a good chance as people supported the TMC stand but did not cast their votes for the TMC front as it was a Lok Sabha poll.

He said despite the opinion poll of some representatives of the print media and private televisionwhich predicted only four per cent of votes to the TMC-led front, it had garnered about 10 per cent of the votes polled. He pointed out that the votes polled by the front would not go in favour of any other party in the future as the voters supported the front to bring about a change in the State.

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