Tamil Nadu has in the past witnessed two elections in which Independent candidates secured the backing of a mainstream political party — with strikingly different results. The two instances were separated by nearly 25 years
Party support for Independent candidate, an election strategy in which Jayalalithaa succeeded and MGR failed
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