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Karunanidhi,
son to defend seats
Express News
Service
Chennai,
April 14:
ALL 24 Tamil Nadu ministers, including Chief Minister and DMK president
M. Karunanidhi, general secretary K. Anbazhagan and treasurer Arcot
N. Veerasamy will contest the May 10 Assembly election in their
respective constituencies. Karunanidhi will seek re-election from
Chepauk.
While Chennai
Mayor and Karunanidhi’s son M.K. Stalin will recontest from
Thousand Lights, Assembly Speaker P.T.R. Palanivel Rajan and Deputy
Speaker Parithi Elamvazhuthi would recontest from Madurai West and
Egmore respectively.
Popular actor
Napolean has been fielded in Villivakkam. Actor-director T. Rajender
will recontest from Park Town. Former AIADMK ministers and senior
functionaries in the DMK — K.K.S.S.R. Ramachandran (Sattur)
and S. Raghupathy (Thirumayam) — and former AIADMK heavy weights
S.D. Ugamchand (Madurantakam) and V Karuppasamy Pandian (Tenkasi),
too, have been accommodated.
Adi Dravidar
Welfare Minister S. Selvaraj, whose present seat Samayanallur was
given to the DMK’s allied parties, was accommodated at Melur
constituency.
Addressing a
well attended election meeting at Chepauk this evening to release
the list, Karunanidhi announced that 93 seats had been given to
the sitting MLAs and another 74 to new faces.
Of the candidates,
14 are women, 81 are Graduates including 33 Post Graduates, 26 advocates
and five doctors.
The Chief Minister
said the list was prepared by consulting party seniors, and those
who have been toiling for the party.
Referring to
TMC Democratic Forum founder P. Chidambaram who left the TMC protesting
against its decision to align with the AIADMK, Karunanidhi said
the DMK ‘‘should thank such a situation which brought
Chidambaram to us’’.
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