Kamal Haasan to contest from Coimbatore South
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After a lot deliberations, Makkal Needhi Maiam founder Kamal Haasan introduced on Friday that he’ll contest from the Coimbatore South seat within the Assembly election.
According to social gathering sources, Coimbatore South seat was deemed ‘safe’ because the Dravidian majors had allotted the seat to their allies — the BJP and the Congress.
A variety of Assembly constituencies within the South Chennai and Coimbatore Lok Sabha constituencies, the place the social gathering had polled greater than 1 lakh votes within the Lok Sabha election in 2019, had been into consideration. The brainstorming over which seat he ought to contest from continued till Thursday night time. Alandur, T. Nagar, Velachery and Mylapore had been a few of the constituencies into consideration from South Chennai.
With the DMK and the AIADMK fielding robust candidates in Alandur, Velachery, T. Nagar and Mylapore, it was determined that Mr. Haasan ought to contest from Coimbatore South.
Party sources additionally mentioned that vice-president Dr. R. Mahendran had labored systematically in Coimbatore for the Lok Sabha ballot and has since then created a powerful social gathering construction within the district. “Though we got over 1 lakh votes in both Coimbatore and South Chennai in the Lok Sabha polls, it was felt that votes polled in Coimbatore were a result of a strong booth level organisation. In South Chennai, the votes polled were not due to a party structure mobilising the voters,” a celebration chief mentioned.
Dr. Mahendran will contest from Singanallur constituency. Former IAS officer Dr. Santhosh Babu has been fielded from the Velachery constituency and can face AIADMK and Congress candidates.
Actor Sripriya has been fielded in Mylapore, the place she is going to compete in opposition to T. Velu of the DMK and former IPS and incumbent R. Natraj of the AIADMK. Veteran politician Pa. Zha. Karuppiah has been fielded from T. Nagar.
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