Several thousands of people across Tamil Nadu stayed away from polling to highlight unresolved issues, including infrastructure, land acquisition, and basic amenities, and demands that remained unfulfilled for years.
In Chennai, residents of a few zones that were badly affected by the floods did not turn up to vote. Villagers who are opposing the Parandur airport project also boycotted the election.
Residents of Avalur near Ranipet boycotted the election, claiming that the government had not fulfilled their long- standing demand for a road over-bridge on the Chennai-Bengaluru Highway (NH 44). They said they had been petitioning the government since 2016. But, by the end of the day, the police convinced some of them to vote.
