V Muraleedharan won against CPI(M) leader K Surendran by 428 votes. Rajeev Chandrashekar won the Nenom seat by 4,978 votes. Gopakumar won in Kazhakoottam by 4,389 votes.
Tamil voters are not naive; rather, they engage in a form of political storytelling that blends aspiration with identity. Hero worship has its own logic.
If successful, its exit would mark the first observed passage by an India-linked tanker since a weeks-old US blockade of ships tied to Iran began, pushing Hormuz transits to nearly zero.
Historically, and instinctively, India has seen threats emerging from the west and the north, from Pakistan and China. The east has received less attention.
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