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The prolonged speculation of BJP State president Nainar Nagenthran leaving Tirunelveli Assembly constituency aft a 4th period has go existent arsenic the AIADMK, the NDA’s look successful Tamil Nadu, has retained the constituency for the April 23 election.
Mr. Nagenthran’s affinity with Tirunelveli constituency started successful 2001, erstwhile the past AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa fielded him successful the seat. He defeated DMK’s A.L. Subramanian by a slender borderline of 722 votes, and managed to go a Minister successful the Jayalalithaa-led Cabinet, owing to his proximity to N. Sasikala. He held salient portfolios similar electricity, transport and industries betwixt 2001 and 2006.
However, helium mislaid successful the 2006 predetermination to DMK’s N. Malairaja by 606 votes, but regained the spot successful 2011 with the monolithic triumph borderline of 38,491 votes implicit DMK’s A.L.S. Lakshmanan.
In 2016 election, Mr. Nagendran was defeated by Mr. Lakshmanan with a constrictive borderline of 601 votes.
After Jayalalithaa’s demise, Mr. Nagenthran’s governmental aboriginal successful the AIADMK became truthful bleak, which forced him to determination to the BJP successful August 2017.
Even though helium joined the BJP that allied with the AIADMK for the 2021 Assembly polls, Mr. Nagenthran was erstwhile again the campaigner for Tirunelveli, wherever helium defeated Mr. Lakshmanan again by 23,107 votes.
As Tirunelveli has been retained by the AIADMK for the 2026 polls, the enactment office-bearers present are precise overmuch relieved that this conception has been ‘liberated’ from Mr. Nagenthran aft a 4th century. The enactment is apt to tract its Tirunelveli territory caput Thatchai N. Ganesa Raja, member of Mr. Malairaja.
Sources adjacent to Mr. Nagenthran accidental helium had started the ‘groundwork’ successful Sattur constituency successful six months agone arsenic this conception houses much than 23% Thevar assemblage voters.
“However, DMK Minister and Mr. Nagenthran’s erstwhile Cabinet workfellow K.K.S.S.R. Ramachandran excessively has a beardown beingness successful Virudhunagar district. So, the DMK precocious bid volition surely springiness peculiar instructions to him to guarantee Mr. Nagenthran’s defeat,” said a BJP office-bearer successful Tirunelveli.
Similarly, the AIADMK has allotted the Vasudevanallur (Reserved) constituency successful Tenkasi territory to the BJP wherever party’s territory president Ananthan Ayyasamy, a technocrat-turned-politician, is to beryllium fielded. Interestingly, Mr. Ananthan’s elder member A. Manoharan, who represented this constituency arsenic AIADMK MLA betwixt 2016 and 2021, is present successful histrion Vijay’s TVK aft being the protagonist of erstwhile Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam.
Mr. Ananthan, arsenic the laminitis of ‘Voice of Tenkasi Foundation’, was preparing the crushed for his electoral introduction by organising grooming camps for unemployed younker and self-help groups, lectures successful colleges and different consciousness programmes for the past 18 months.
In each possibilities, this conception whitethorn witnesser the conflict betwixt sitting MLA T. Sadan Thirumalaikumar of the MDMK and Mr. Ayyasamy.
