Bifurcation of Dindigul is becoming an election plank

Bifurcation of Dindigul territory is acceptable to go an aggravated run taxable successful this Assembly election. The bugle telephone was sounded successful February this twelvemonth with BJP person K. Annamalai-led protests calling for the Tamil Nadu authorities to state Palani arsenic a abstracted district. R. Sakkarapani, elder DMK Minister and Oddanchatram MLA besides has promised the instauration of ‘Palani district’. 

The request for carving retired Palani from Dindigul has pushed the absorption connected the district. It was connected September 15, 1985, that Dindigul territory (comprising Dindigul, Palani, and Kodaikanal taluks) was officially bifurcated from the erstwhile Madurai district.