Maintaining its winning streak in nine districts forming the central region, the front led by the ruling DMK handed a severe drubbing to the AIADMK and achieved a near total sweep of all four corporations, 23 municipalities and 71 town panchayats on Tuesday.
Riding the crest of a wave, the DMK-led alliance wrested control of the Tiruchi and Thanjavur corporations from the AIADMK and sailed to a comfortable majority in the new corporations of Karur and Kumbakonam.
In Tiruchi, the DMK and its allies won 59 out of the 65 seats. The AIADMK, which had won 42 seats in the 2011 elections, won just three seats. The DMK candidates, including former Deputy Mayor M. Anbazhagan, who is the party’s probable mayoral candidate, won in 49 wards. Congress candidates won all the five wards allotted to the party, while the MDMK won two seats. The VCK, the CPI and the CPI(M) bagged one ward each.
