The returning officer (RO) of Chennai's poll-bound RK Nagar rejected the actor's nomination today, on the grounds that he only had eight valid proposers - two less than the number he needed. RK Nagar, or Dr. Radhakrishnan Nagar, is the former Assembly constituency of the late J Jayalalithaa, who died a year ago today. The rejection of Vishal's nomination had been announced earlier, but the actor then claimed it had been accepted after a scrutiny of a complaint with respect to signatures in the application form. Vishal says there's video footage of the RO saying his nomination papers have been accepted. "I thanked them, and even before I could reach my home, it's been announced that they rejected it," he said.

Source: India Today December 05, 2017 18:09 UTC