Congress wrests the lone Lok Sabha seat in Puducherry

Puducherry, May 24 

Senior Congress leader and former Assembly Speaker V Vaithilingam emerged victorious in the election to the lone Lok Sabha seat in Puducherry.

Vaithilingam polled 4,44,981 votes while his nearest rival K Narayanasamy of the All India N. R. Congress (AINRC), a doctor-turned-politician garnered 2,47,956 votes.

Vaithilingam, a former chief minister of the union territory, won by a margin of 1,97,025 votes to wrest the seat from the opposition AINRC.

 

Counting of votes ended past midnight after it had begun at 8 AM on Thursday. Vaithilingam was declared elected at 2 AM Friday, official sources told PTI.

 

Vaithilingam had won the Kamaraj Nagar Assembly segment in the 2016 elections and resigned as Speaker in March to contest the Lok Sabha polls.PTI 

 

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