The Archive · 1934

Indian Congress Wins Seats

Madras, Nov. 12.

Two notable successes were obtained to-day by the National Congress Party in the Legislative Assembly elections.

According to the first returns, the President of the Assembly, Sir Shanmukham Chetty, has been defeated in the Madras Indian commerce con stituency by 787 votes to 685 by Mr. Swami Venkatachalam Chetty, the National Congress Party candidate.

In the Madras city general non-'Mohammedan constituency the present member of the Assembly, Mr. Rama-swami Mudaliar, who ' took part in the Round-Table Conference " in London in 1982, was defeated by another Congress member, Mr. Satyamurth, by 6788 votes to 3.381—

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