DMK sweeps TN civic polls

Chennai: A lady and her son, a woman and her husband are among the winners in the just concluded urban civic polls in Tamil Nadu, results for which were declared on Tuesday.

In Madurai district’s So zhavandhan Town Panchayat, Ma Vallimayil and her son Ma Maruthupandiyan won from ward 13 and 8 respectively. In Alanganallur Town Panchayat in the same district, DMK nominees, G L Renuka Easwari and her husband Ra Govindaraj won from ward 4 and 5 respectively. In Kanchipuram’s Kundrathur municipality, Banu Sathiyamurthy and her husband Ko Sathiyamurthy won from wards 17 and 18 on DMK tickets.

Similar wins of nominees from the same family were witnessed in other regions as well. A trans-woman, Ra Ganga won on a DMK ticket from ward 38 of Vellore Municipal Corporation.