Claiming victory as trends gave her party a clear majority in the 234-member Tamil Nadu Assembly, AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa on Thursday termed the people’s verdict as historic as against the “family rule” of DMK.
This election has upheld true democracy, shattering to pieces the campaign of lies of DMK. This election has put a permanent full stop to the family rule.J Jayalalithaa
In the run up to polls, she had appealed to the people to vote against the family rule of DMK and support her party to nurture democracy.Expressing her heartfelt thanks to the people, she said they have handed her party “a historic victory” by voting her back to power.
They had given her the honour of retaining power by an incumbent regime for the first time after 1984, she said. AIADMK founder M G Ramachandran managed to successively win polls (1977-87) in Tamil Nadu and after that no other party managed to do it.
I will forever be indebted to the people of Tamil Nadu who have reposed full faith in me and by making AIADMK emerge victorious in a big way.J Jayalalithaa
Vowing to fulfil all her electoral promises, 68-year old Jayalalithaa said she would work hard to make Tamil Nadu, the numero uno state in the country.Thanking her party workers, and functionaries of alliance parties, she lauded them for working hard for the victory.
She also thanked the people of Puducherry and Kerala who voted for her party.
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