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Even though contestants of 4 large governmental forces are successful the fray for the April 23 polls, Alangulam, which elected erstwhile Assembly Speaker S. Chellapandian, is witnessing a keen tussle betwixt the candidates of the ruling DMK and the AIADMK arsenic sitting MLA takes connected a erstwhile MP.
After winning the archetypal Assembly predetermination successful Alangulam constituency successful 1952, the Congress mislaid this conception to an autarkic campaigner successful the adjacent predetermination and retained it successful 1962. S. Chellapandian won the predetermination to go the Speaker erstwhile K. Kamaraj was the Chief Minister.
However, DMK’s Aladi Aruna bagged Alangulam successful 1967 erstwhile the enactment came to powerfulness successful Tamil Nadu for the archetypal clip and defended it successful the adjacent predetermination too.
After the AIADMK was floated by MGR, the enactment won Alangulam successful 1977. After being with the Congress for the adjacent 10 years, the constituency was wrested by the DMK again successful 1996, but the second mislaid it to the AIADMK successful 2001. Aladi Aruna’s girl Poongothai won this constituency successful 2006 to go Minister for Social Welfare successful the M. Karunanidhi-led Cabinet.
Dr. Poongothai mislaid it to AIADMK’s P.G. Rajendran successful 2011, but retained Alangulam again successful 2016.
In the 2021 election, autarkic campaigner A. Hari Nadar spoiled her chances by garnering 37,727 votes. She mislaid the predetermination to AIADMK’s P.H. Manoj Pandian, lad of erstwhile Speaker P.H. Pandian, who defected to the DMK precocious to go the campaigner again connected DMK’s summons for the April 23 polls. Mr. Manoj Pandian has to instrumentality connected AIADMK’s Prabhakaran, erstwhile Tirunelveli MP, too NTK and TVK candidates.
As the introduction of Mr. Manoj Pandian into the DMK efficaciously spoiled the chances of Dr. Poongothai becoming the DMK campaigner for Alangulam again, she tried her champion to beryllium fielded successful Tenkasi, wherever the ruling enactment chose to nominate DMK office-bearer ‘Anbagam’ Kalai’s lad Kalai Kathiravan, a aesculapian professional.
Even though literacy complaint successful this constituency has gone up considerably implicit the years and the educationally qualified younker are leaving for different areas for employment, their parents are inactive languishing successful beedi rolling industry, which has been a premier livelihood for the women successful this adust country adjacent today, portion vegetables and angiosperm cultivation augments this agrarian constituency’s system to immoderate extent.
“Since the beedi rollers are suffering from a scope of ailments, the authorities should motorboat a rehabilitation programme to instrumentality them to different manufacture ensuring decent earnings. The tailoring units introduced present with a fewer well-trained women from Alangulam country should beryllium expanded,” says Ramalingam of Alangulam, an entrepreneur.
Even though Alangulam and its surroundings nutrient a immense quantity of vegetables and flowers with good water, this portion lacks due retention installation that causes a immense nonaccomplishment to the farmers whenever accumulation exceeds demand.
Another large contented this constituency faces is uncontrollable quarrying of stones which are transported to Kerala successful dense trucks. Consequently, groundwater array successful the already adust portion has gone down alarmingly, affecting rootlike cultivation. Despite repeated appeals from the nationalist and conservationists, the authoritative machinery was successful nary temper to power the looting of the earthy wealth.
Only aft 2 youth, who were agitated implicit the ample quantities of stones mined done amerciable quarrying being transported successful dense trucks that harm agrarian roads, lobbed a petrol weaponry connected a motortruck earnestly injuring the driver, the territory medication took enactment to regularise this business. However, the plundering of the earthy assets continues and licences for quarrying stones were issued adjacent successful February last.
“Since groundwater array has gone down menacingly owed to the amerciable chromatic mining, the authorities should instrumentality measures to amended availability of h2o for irrigation. Since Gadana and Ramanadhi dams guarantee decent quantity of h2o for irrigation successful a portion of Alangulam constituency, they should beryllium desilted arsenic it was not done for the past 40 years. Moreover, the dormant Ramanadhi - Jambunadhi elevated transmission task should beryllium revived,” says S. Muruganandam, a trader from Alangulam.
