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Newly-elected women TVK MLAs take oath as members of Assembly

Chennai, Oct 12 (UNI) Two TVK women MLAs K.Maragatham Kumaravel and P.Sathyabama, who won the October six Assembly bypolls from Madurantakam and Dharapuram constituencies respectively, were sworn in as Members of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly on Monday.
Assembly Speaker JCD.Prabhakar administered the oath of office to the two legislators in his chamber at the State Secretariat here in the presence of Ministers N. Anand, K. Sengottaiyan, Aadhav Arjuna, A.Rajmohan and others.
Maragatham Kumaravel won from Madurantakam by a margin of 20,040 votes, while Sathyabama won in Dharapuram by a margin of 9,471 votes, defeating DMK candidates and pushing AIADMK to the third place.
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