RK Nagar bypolls : 41% polling recorded by 1 pm

By around 1 pm, 41.6 per cent polling has been recorded in RK Nagar.

The RK Nagar constituency, the seat which was held by the late Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa, went to polls on Thursday. It is being contested by E Madhusudhanan for the ruling AIADMK party, Marudhu Ganesh for the DMK and rebel TTV Dinakaran, who is contesting as an Independent. Counting of votes will be



held on December 24.

A day ahead of the polls, the Election Commission had prevented dissemination of a video purportedly showing former chief minister and AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa in Apollo Hospitals in Chennai, where she was undergoing treatment. The video was released by an MLA from the Dinakaran faction, P Vetrivel, who claimed it was shot by Sasikala Natarajan.