Namakkal is one of the Lok Sabha constituencies in Tamil Nadu. The state has 39 parliamentary seats. The Namakkal seat comprises 6 Assembly segments including Sankari, Rasipuram, Senthamangalam, Namakkal, Paramathi-velur, Tiruchengodu. The constituency is a GENERAL seat. The DMK, the ADMK are the main parties in the constituency. In the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, Chinraj A.k.p from DMK won the seat with a margin of 265,151 votes. Chinraj A.k.p was polled 626,293 votes with a vote share of 55.00 % and defeated Kaliappan P from ADMK who got 361,142 votes (31.85 %). In the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections, Sundaram P.r from AIADMK won the seat and was polled 563,272 votes with a vote share of 53.14%. DMK candidate Gandhiselvan.s got 268,898 votes (25.37 %) and was the runner-up.Sundaram P.r defeated Gandhiselvan.s by a margin of 294,374 votes.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a mega roadshow in Mumbai on Wednesday evening to canvass support for the candidates of the BJP and its allies as thousands of people lined up to greet him. The roadshow came ahead of the May 20 polling for the six Lok Sabha constituencies in Mumbai.
After phase four, polling in three more phases including fifth, sixth and seventh are yet to take place. The results for the Lok Sabha elections will be declared on June 4. In the first three phases, experts shared their concerns over the low voter turnout.
Speaking on how will BJP perform in southern states, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said he stands by his statement that combining his party's seats in Karnataka, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, the saffron camp will emerge as the biggest party.
The verbal assault by Piyush Goyal underscores the deteriorating relationship between the former allies, BJP and Shiv Sena, who parted ways after the 2019 Maharashtra assembly elections over differences in power-sharing arrangements.
Amit Shah, amid the ongoing Lok Sabha elections in the country, on Wednesday spoke about Arvind Kejriwal's interim bail by the Supreme Court, PoK, NDA seat prediction, Mamata Banerjee, Swati Maliwal assault case and other issues.
How big a victory the NDA is going to get can be estimated from the words of a senior leader of the INDI alliance. Congress is going to face such a crushing defeat, that it is difficult for them to become the prime opposition party, PM Modi said at a poll rally in Maharashtra.
Uttarakhand government has been questioned by the Supreme Court for failing to control forest fire saying it was in pain to say that the approach of the state administration in dealing the situation was lackluster.
While filing nomination for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, actress Kangana Ranaut has declared that she has over Rs 91 crore worth of properties in her name. Scroll down to know more details about her nomination affidavit.