Jayalalithaa to contest from R K Nagar, AIADMK releases list of 234 candidates

Chennai: Tamil Nadu chief minister and AIADMK general secretary  J Jayalalithaa will  contest the May 2016 Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu from R K Nagar constituency in Chennai. There is no room for TMC in the list released by AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa today. The AIADMK list including a few minor allies has been announced for 234 seats in the State. In Puducherry, the AIADMK will contest all the seats on its own strength.

Assembly Speaker P Dhanapal will contest from Avinasi constituency, and deputy Speaker Pollachi Jayaraman from Pollachi, while senior Ministers O Panneerselvam (Bodinayakanar) and Natham Viswanathan (Alandur) are prominent among 17 Ministers who have been given the party ticket again.

Former minister Panruti S Ramachandran will contest the May 16 elections from Alandur. Ministers Pa Valarmathi, Gokula Indira, P Thangamani , K C Veeramani, SP Velumani  will contest from Thousand Lights, Anna Nagar, Kumarapalayam, Jolarpet and Thondamuthur respectively. Former DGP R Nataraj will seek election from Mylapore. Former minister K A Sengottaiyan stages a comeback in the party and will fight the election from Gobichettipalayam. 

R Nataraj (Mylapore), Pa Valarmathi (Thousand Lights), Chitlapakkam C Rajendran (Tambaram), C V Elangovan (Pallavaram), J C D Prabakar (Kolathur), P Vetrivel (Perambur), D Jayakumar (Royapuram), Parithil Ilamvazhuthi (Egmore-reserve), A Munusamy (Cheyyur), SRK Appu (Katpadi), M Kalaiyarasu (Anaicut), T A Elumalai (Poonamallee-reserve), K Pandiarajan (Avadi), P M Narasimhan (Tiruttani), A Baskaran (Tiruvallur)), P Benjamin (Maduravoyal ), V Alexander (Ambattur), D Dakshinamurthy (Madhavaram), Neelangarai M C Munisamy (Velachery), Leo N Sundaram (Sozhinganallur) Thadi M Rasu (Villivakkam), V Nilakantan (Thiru Vi Ka Nagar –reserve), R Kamalakannan (Chengalpattu), M Kothandapani (Tiruporur), Pa Ganesan (Uthiramerur), Mythili Tirunavukkarasu (Kancheepuram), K V Ramadas (Arcot), K S Vijayakumar (Gummidipoondi), C Elumalai (Ranipet), Noorjehan (Chepauk-Triplicane), Ko Si Manivannan (Arakkonam), K S Srinivasan (Harbour), Jayanthi Padmanabhan (Gudiyatham), K Palani (Sriperumbudur), P. Balraj  (Thiruvottriyur),  are among the candidates in the list.

Among the allies, Sarath Kumar (Tiruchendur), C K Tamizharasan (Madurantakam), Thaniyarasu (Kangeyam), Karunas (Thiruvadanai), Sheikh Dawood (Kadayanallur),  Tamimun Ansari (Nagapattinam), figure in the list of candidates released by the AIADMK.

Ministers Palaniappan, M S Anandan and Mukkoor Subramanian have been denied party ticket this time.

 
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