The counting of the votes polled in the rural local bodies underway in the state of Tamil Nadu since Thursday morning as the results have been revealing the strongholds and the rise of the independent candidates- particularly women who gave a real fight to the state political parties and its candidates as the heat is on between the rivals to hold the local bodies that have been vacant for the past three years.

As the counting in the rural bodies in 27 districts has neared it's halfway, the results which have been declared had certainly divulged the truth that the age doesn't matter for serving the people and the age didn't hold the importance that the commitment and the victory of a 79-year-old elder woman and a 21-year-old young woman holds the testament of serving the people regardless of the age.  A 79-year-old elder woman Veerammal from Madurai district has won the election and declared as the President of Panchayat.

It's the third time that she has hit the grounds of the campaign as she had lost the previous ones and for this time, she contested for the post of the President of Arittapatti Panchayat in Madurai district and she had defeated the seven other candidates with the margin of 195 votes and through her victory, she got a place in history as she has become the elderly Panchayat president in the state.

On the other hand, a 21-year-old college student Jayasandhiya Rani has won for the post of Panchayat President of K.N.Thotti in Krishnagiri district. Jayasandhiya Rani, who is pursuing her bachelor's degree in Business Administration in Karnataka, has got 1,170 votes while her opponent ended with 950 votes following which she has been declared as winner with the margin of 220 votes.

The counting has been rolled out as scheduled earlier and the State Election Commission (SEC) has installed 315 counting centers across the districts that hosted the polls and the police personnel had been stationed in the centers as the authorities have been counting the votes registered in the four different colored ballot papers. The two-phased local body polls had seen about 2.31 lakh people who contested for 91,975 posts in the rural local bodies including Gram Panchayat President, Gram Panchayat Ward member, Panchayat Union ward member, and District Panchayat Union Ward member posts.