CHENNAI: Former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu O Panneerselvam and two other leaders have filed petitions in Madras High Court challenging the victory of their rival candidates in the recent Lok Sabha polls.
OPS, who was sacked from AIADMK, contested as an independent backed by BJP from Ramanathapuram constituency. He lost to K Navas Kani of Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), who contested as part of the INDIA bloc led by the DMK in Tamil Nadu, with a margin of 1.67 lakh votes.
He visited the Madras High Court on Thursday accompanied by his lawyers and filed the election petition challenging the victory of Kani, who won from the constituency for the consecutive second term.
BJP leader Nainar Nagendran has also filed an election petition in the court challenging the election of the winning candidate Robert Bruce, of the Congress party, in the Tirunelveli Lok Sabha constituency. Bruce defeated Nagendran by a margin of 1.66 lakh votes.
Similarly, Vijaya Prabhakaran, DMDK candidate in Virudhunagar constituency and son of late actor-politician Vijaykanth, also filed an election petition in the court. He lost to Congress leader Manickam Tagore by a slender margin of just 4.379 votes. He had earlier petitioned the Election Commission of India regarding his defeat.