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| | Jayalalithaa's victory |
 | | Jayalalithaa defeated Vaigai Sekar, her nearest rival, by an impressive margin of 41,201 votes, which is attributed to her hectic five-day campaign in the vast constituency, a string of promises that she made to the electorate, and the special treatment that the constituency received in terms of development work. |
 | | Jayalalithaa pointed out that she won despite the fact that all her allies in the last Assembly elections, such as the Tamil Maanila Congress, the Congress(I), the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party of India, had walked out of the AIADMK-led alliance and decided not to participate in the byelection. |
 | | During the campaign, Jayalalithaa made several promises: a new arts college in Andipatti; a medical college in Theni district; desilting of the Adhikari canal; construction of a reservoir at Theppampatti for which, she said, Rs.1.20 crores had been allotted; redress of the grievances of weavers; and so on. |
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