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DMK cadre, connected Monday (March 30, 2026), protested to alteration the DMK Veerapandi Assembly constituency campaigner successful Salem.
On Saturday (March 28, 2026), Chief Minister and DMK president M.K. Stalin announced candidates for the Assembly elections to beryllium held connected April 23. For Veerapandi constituency, A.K. Tharun was announced arsenic the DMK candidate. He contested successful the 2021 Assembly predetermination and mislaid the election.
Meanwhile, connected Monday, supporters of the Salem East District Deputy Secretary Parapatti R. Suresh Kumar gathered astatine District Secretary S.R. Sivalingam’s location adjacent Salem Town Railway Station and raised slogans to alteration the candidate.
They alleged that Mr. Tharun came to stitchery votes successful 2021 successful Veerapandi but aft that, for the past 5 years, nary 1 saw him successful the constituency. Mr. Suresh Kumar attended each function in Veerapandi and met the enactment cadre regularly. Therefore, Mr. Suresh should beryllium announced arsenic a DMK candidate. If not, DMK cadre volition not enactment for Mr. Tharun successful this election, they said. “No 1 has pressurised america to protestation and we are acceptable to apologise to the enactment precocious command. But we privation the Mr. Stalin to alteration the candidate. We are acceptable to resign from our enactment posts if Mr. Tharun is not changed,” the cadre added.
Later, Mr. Sivalingam met the enactment cadres and held talks with them. The cadre submitted their request to him.
