DMK, AMMK announce candidates for Tiruvarur

The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and the Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam on Friday announced their candidates, Poondi K. Kalaivanan and S. Kamaraj, respectively, for the Tiruvarur Assembly constituency where a byelection is slated to be held on January 28.
Battle lines would become clearer when the AIADMK announces its candidate, in all probability on Saturday.
Mr. Kalaivanan, the DMK’s Tiruvarur district secretary, is the brother of Poondi Kalaiselvan, a former DMK leader from the region who was murdered in 2007. Mr. Kalaivanan was subsequently made the district organiser of DMK. He later contested successfully in the inner-party elections and took over as DMK’s district unit secretary. Mr. Kalaivanan had also served as a member of the District Panchayat. He is considered to have played a key role in mobilising grassroot workers, when late party president M. Karunanidhi contested and recorded big wins from Tiruvarur in 2011 and 2016.

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