Mayiladuthurai, a stronghold of Congress

Mayiladuthurai is yet another peculiar Lok Sabha constituency in Tamil Nadu which has its Assembly segments spread over more than one revenue district.

The parliamentary constituency can be rightly described as “a forte of the Congress” at least since 1977, and the only time it has lost was in 1996, that too to its progeny Tamil Maanila Congress (TMC), which has since merged with the parent Congress(more...)