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Many new faces in the fray

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AIADMK re-nominates Jayalalithaa and 51 other sitting MLAs

VICTORY SIGN: AIADMK partymen show two leaves symbol after the party leader Jayalalithaa announced the list of candidates for the Assembly election, in Chennai on Monday. — Photo: V. Ganesan

CHENNAI: About 70 per cent of the candidates of the ruling All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazahgam in the list of 182 candidates released by the party general secretary and Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Monday for the May 8 Assembly elections are new faces.

Barring Ms.Jayalalithaa and 51other sitting MLAs who have been re-nominated, all the other candidates are new faces.

She also announced the names of candidates for 54 Assembly constituencies in Kerala and 16 segments in the Union Territory of Pondicherry.

Ms.Jayalalithaa will seek re-election from Andipatti.

As many as 21 Cabinet colleagues and former Speaker, now chairman of the AIADMK presidium, K.Kalimuthu have been re-nominated.

Madurai Central has been earmarked for Mr.Kalimuthu. Public Works Minister O.Paneerselvam will seek re-election from Periyakulam. Law Minister D.Jayakumar and N.Thalavai Sundaram will contest from Royapuram and Kanyakumari.

Denied ticket

Finance Minister C.Ponnaiyan, Labour Minister P.Annavi, Minister for Sports and Youth Welfare Inbathamilan and Deputy Speaker Varagur A.Arunachalam have been denied ticket.

AIADMK functionaries, including treasurer Dindigul C.Srinivasan, propaganda secretary O.S.Manian and organising secretary K.A.Sengottaiyan have been given a chance to prove their mettle in Athur, Vedaranyam and Gobichettipalayam constituencies.

A total of 24 women nominees including Ms.Jayalalithaa, Chairperson of the Tamil Nadu Wakf Board Bader Sayeed, Social Welfare Minister Vijayalakshmi Palanisamy and Minister for Rural Industries, B.Valarmathi are in the fray.

Ex-PMK MLA rewarded

The AIADMK has rewarded former Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) MLA Sivagami Vincent, who joined the party after quitting the Assembly, by allotting her Dharapuram (S.C.).

Though an array of film personalities including actors and directors joined the AIADMK close on the heels of the announcement of the Assembly poll, actor S.Ve.Sekar alone has been given ticket.

He will contest from Mylapore in Chennai city. The actor unsuccessfully fought the election here in 1989.

But film star M.R.Radha Ravi, who represented Saidapet in the Assembly, has been denied ticket.

Vijayalakshmi Palanisamy has been shifted from Panamarathupatti to Veerapandi.

Dairy Development Minister S.Ramachandran will move from Kalasapakkam to Thandarampattu.

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