Summary:
Three other AIADMK MLAs have also been openly supporting Dhinakaran, bringing down the effective strength of the ruling party further down. Kanagaraj’s death has come as a setback to the party at a time when the AIADMK is facing one of its toughest elections. A familiar face across the rural segment of Sulur who took everyone along, Kanagaraj’s death is a loss to the party in the region. If Sulur segment also gets declared vacant and a bypoll is announced, woes of the AIADMK would mount. Hosur constituency went without an MLA after its legislator Balakrishna Reddy was convicted in an arson case.Till Kanagaraj’s death, the AIADMK, with 114 MLAs (excluding speaker) in the house of 213 had a comfortable majority as the halfway mark was 107..