Tamil Nadu Elections 2016: AIADMK releases candidates list; Jayalalithaa to contest again from RK Nagar
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The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) on Monday announced the list of candidates for the upcoming Tamil Nadu assembly elections.
AIADMK will contest in 227 constituencies and the alliance partner will be allocated 7 seats. Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa will contest from RK Nagar.
Her confidant and Finance Minister O Panneerselvam, Electricity Minister Natham R Viswanathan, Housing Minister R Vaithlingam, Handloom Minister Gokula Indira and Minister for Social Welfare B Valarmathi are among the Ministers who have been re-nominated.
S P Velumani, Sellur K Raju, RB Udayakumar, and K T Rajendrabalaji - also sitting Ministers- and Assembly Deputy Speaker Pollachi V Jayaraman and former DGP of Tamil Nadu R Natraj also figure in the list.
K Pandiarajan, a rebel DMDK MLA who joined the AIADMK after the conclusion of the last Assembly session has also been named.
Allies Indian Republican Party, AISMK, Tamil Nadu Kongu Ilangyar Peravai, Tamil Manila Muslim League and Mukkulathor Pulipadai have all been allotted one seat each and Manithaneya Jananayaga Katchi, a splinter outfit of MMK has been given two seats. She held talks with them prior to the announcement.
Earlier in the day, ending intense negotiations spread over weeks, DMK allotted its key ally Congress 41 seats for the May 16 Assembly polls.
The bilateral discussions to identify the constituencies each of them would contest will begin later today.
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