Known as India’s “elections king”, K Padmarajan, 65, has contested elections for a range of offices, from the local council to the Indian presidency, and lost all of them, making it to the ...

METTUR - Despite failing 238 times in his bid for public office in India, K. Padmarajan is unperturbed as he prepares, yet again, to contest elections in the world's largest democracy. The 65-year ...

The constituency is set to vote on February 5. Serial election contester K Padmarajan was among the first lot to file the nomination papers. This is my 247th election, Padmarajan said.

K Padmarajan (64), from Mettur in Salem, known as the ‘Election King’, was the first to file a nomination. He has so far contested in 246 elections and lost in all of them. “My only ...