Tamil Nadu Assembly elections | Party leader faces off against first-timer in Dharapuram
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The voters of the Dharapuram (Reserved) Assembly constituency in Tiruppur district are set to witness a contest between the State president of the BJP and a first-time candidate from the DMK entrance in subsequent month’s Assembly election.
BJP Tamil Nadu president L. Murugan is the candidate of the AIADMK entrance for the Dharapuram constituency which, by the way, is the one reserved constituency in the Kongu area to have been allotted by the AIADMK to the BJP. He grew to become the social gathering’s State unit president in March 2020, and unsuccessfully contested the Assembly election in 2011 (from Rasipuram) and 2006 (from Sankari) as a member of the BJP.
On the opposite hand, the DMK has determined to discipline Kayalvizhi Selvaraj, a functionary of the social gathering’s ladies’s wing. According to sources, she has been a member of the DMK since 1996.
Many long-standing calls for of the voters of this constituency stay unaddressed. Agriculture being a predominant occupation right here, the farmers have been demanding the discharge of an satisfactory quantity of water into the Uppar dam in Kundadam for irrigating over 6,000 acres of agricultural land.
R. Muruganantham, government committee member of the Tiruppur District Uppar Farmers’ Protection Association, mentioned the farmers had intensified their protest over the previous two years, demanding the discharge of water from the Thirumoorthy dam into the Uppar dam.
An official from the Public Works Department mentioned solely surplus water from the Thirumoorthy dam could possibly be launched, as per a authorities order. The surplus water was launched for eight days in January, the official famous.
However, Mr. Muruganantham mentioned this may not be enough for irrigation. “There is no guarantee that the authorities will ensure the release of adequate water in the future,” he mentioned.
Education and well being
Within the Dharapuram municipal limits calls for, together with the organising of a authorities arts faculty and higher services on the Dharapuram Government Hospital, have been pending for over a decade. P. Kathiravan, former councillor of Ward 25 from the DMK, mentioned college students from Dharapuram have been pressured to go to Kangeyam and Udumalpet to pursue greater schooling. Similarly, sufferers from Dharapuram have been looking for remedy on the Tiruppur Government Medical College Hospital and the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital as a result of lack of services on the native authorities hospital.
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