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The Nanguneri Assembly segment, a backward portion wherever agriculture is the premier livelihood adjacent though h2o for irrigation is scarce, volition witnesser keen tri-corner contention among the Congress, Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhgam and the recently floated Tamilaga Vetri Kazhagam this time.
Nanguneri, an agrarian region, was with Indian National Congress successful the archetypal 3 Assembly polls since 1952 and DMK got it for the archetypal clip in1971. After Janata Party’s M. John Vincent, who won this constituency with a bladed borderline of 204 votes successful 1977, joined AIADMK successful 1980 to get elected again with improved show of 4,049 votes and this triumph borderline grew further successful 1984 to 14,018 votes.
The adjacent predetermination successful 1989 went successful favour of the DMK arsenic AIADMK was past a ‘divided house’ aft the demise of laminitis M.G. Ramachandran. Even though the AIADMK wrested this spot successful 1991 aft the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, the CPI, an state of the DMK, got it successful 1996.
After the AIADMK bagged Nanguneri successful 2001, H. Vasanthakumar of Vasanthi & Co won this constituency arsenic Congress campaigner successful 2006 and AIADMK got it backmost successful 2011. Even though Vasanthakumar won the 2016 battle, helium became Kanniyakumari MP successful 2019 and resigned arsenic Nanguneri MLA. Reddiyarpatti V. Narayanan won the by-election necessitated by Vasanthakumar’s resignation.
In 2001, renowned builder Ruby R. Manoharan, who mislaid the by-poll to Mr. Narayanan, bagged Nanguneri.
Interestingly, T.T.V. Dhinakaran’s Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam got 31,870 votes successful 2021 arsenic Nanguneri constituency houses sizeable fig of Marvar assemblage voters. Hence, the enactment has been allotted this spot for the April 23 polls besides successful the AIADMK-led National Democratic Alliance and 1 Esakki Muthu has been fielded. Even though the Congress is yet to denote it campaigner for Nanguneri, Mr. Manoharan, the existent MLA, is apt to beryllium fielded again.
And, the canvass conflict hots-up further arsenic Mr. Narayanan, aft leaving the AIADMK for not giving him ticket, is successful the fray arsenic the TVK campaigner this time.
Since this adust agrarian portion gets h2o from Manimuthar dam whenever the district’s largest reservoir overflows, harvest cultivation, mostly paddy and banana, is based connected the merchandise of h2o from this dam. The river-linking transmission that traverses this constituency to bring the surplus h2o of the Tamirabharani to Karumaeniyar and Nambiyar rivers has revived farming successful galore adust areas portion improving groundwater to amended drinking h2o proviso to immoderate extent.
And, the ₹465 crore drinking h2o task nearing completion is apt to supply imperishable solution to the drinking h2o situation prevalent successful astir of the villages of Nanguneri constituency. Frustrated implicit the adust information prevailing successful much than 10 months of each year, a fewer 1000 families suffering from unemployment person near their birthplace successful hunt of greener pastures successful Tirupur, Coimbatore, Chennai and adjacent Mumbai.
Hence, erstwhile the Tamil Nadu authorities came retired with the announcement of Nanguneri Special Economic Zone, it was expected that it would beryllium the panacea for each the problems – unemployment and caste clashes – prevailing successful this region. However, it hasn’t happened adjacent aft 25 agelong years!
As the agonizing hold continues, the ‘non-starter Nanguneri SEZ’ has go a canvass contented erstwhile again.
However, the unemployment and the casteism being catalysed by the leaders of each the castes, support this constituency boiling.
The caller gruesome onslaught unleashed by an equipped pack connected the guiltless nationalist astatine Perumpaththu Indra Colony adjacent Nanguneri is an grounds to this tense situation. The treble execution and the hacking of 5 others by an equipped pack person severely impacted the voters arsenic the 7 young suspects beryllium to a peculiar assemblage portion the victims are from different castes including Scheduled Caste.
“My students, during backstage speech confide that this onslaught had been orchestrated to show caste supremacy of a ascendant caste successful Nanguneri, who already bask tremendous money, musculus and governmental power. I judge that these teen students’ parents oregon relatives mightiness person sowed this mentation successful their mind. Hence, it is precise wide that this improvement has resulted successful caste polarization successful Nanguneri which volition surely interaction the canvass results also. Caste leaders person already started fanning this contented to halt their assemblage voters from supporting the campaigner belonging to this ascendant group, my students say,” a pistillate postgraduate adjunct of a authorities higher secondary schoolhouse successful Nanguneri taluk says.
The constabulary and gross section officials excessively endorse the teacher’s claim.
“We’ve to enactment overtime to ticker each these developments truthful arsenic to forestall immoderate untoward incidental during electioneering for ensuring peaceful polling successful Nanguneri connected April 23,” said a elder gross section official.
The lone solace for the backward Nanguneri country arsenic of present is the Tamil Nadu Government’s connection to set-up 2 concern estates astatine Nanguneri and Moolaikkaraipatti for which onshore acquisition is reportedly going on, if this gross official’s assertion is to beryllium believed.
