The never before performance, a clean sweep by Chief Minister Jayalalithaa-headed party coming on a day when she completed three years in office, decimated her opponents, particularly arch rival DMK and put her onto the driver's seat for the assembly polls due exactly two years from now.
BJP and its ally PMK notched up consolation wins in one constituency each while all others including DMK, Congress, Left parties and AAP bit the dust as the votes polled in the April 24 elections were counted today.
The outcome has come as a stunning blow to 89-year-old M Karunanidhi-led DMK, already rattled by war among his two sons -- M K Alagiri and M K Stalin -- and its attempts to resurrect its sagging image in this election were brought to a nought by the electorate.
For the first time after a gap of 23 years, DMK has been blanked in Tamil Nadu and similar is the fate of Congress for which had encountered a similar fate in 1998.
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The "Amma" wave spread by Jayalalithaa swept away the BJP-led six party alliance that comprised among others cine star headed Vijayakant, Vanniyar-backed PMK and Vaiko's MDMK.
The only solace for the saffron party, which stormed to power at the Centre with a tsunami of support across the country, was that it won from Kanyakumari, besides another by its ally PMK (Dharmapuri).
Popular among those who lost out in the hustings are DMK's 2G scam accused Dayanidhi Maran (Central Chennai) and A Raja (Nilgiris-SC) and T R Baalu (Thanjavur), Manishankar Aiyar and Karti Chidambaram (Congress), the last two finishing fourth.