Tamil Nadu polls: AIADMK names 23 candidates in first list; Palaniswami to contest from Edappadi

Tamil Nadu’s main opposition party AIADMK, leading the NDA in the state, released its first list of 23 candidates for the Assembly polls on Wednesday (March 25). The party renominated its chief, Edappadi Palaniswami, from his home turf of Edappadi constituency in Salem district.

In its first list, the AIADMK retained top leaders including KP Munusamy, Dindigul C Sreenivasan, and Natham R Viswanathan. The party named western region’s star leaders SP Velumani, P Thangamani from Thondamuthur, and Kumarapalayam respectively.

P Benjamin, Agri SS Krishnamurthy (MLA), VV Rajan Chellappa (MLA), KC Karuppannan (MLA), KC Veeramani, MR Vijayabaskar and Thamarai S Rajendran were part of the list.
The state will go to the polls on April 23, and the result will be declared on May 4.

AIADMK has allotted 27 seats to BJP, 18 to PMK, and 11 to AMMK. Taking into account other allies in the NDA, the AIADMK is set to contest a lion’s share of seats out of the total 234 in Tamil Nadu.

Here is the first list of candidates

S.No.	Constituency	Candidate
1	Edappadi	Edappadi Palaniswami
2	Veppanahalli	KP Munusamy
3	Dindigul	Dindigul C Srinivasan
4	Natham	Natham R Viswanathan
5	Thondamuthur	SP Velumani
6	Royapuram	D Jayakumar
7	Kumarapalayam	P Thangamani
8	Mailam	C Ve Shanmugam
9	Viralimalai	C Vijayabaskar
10	Kovilpatti	Kadambur C Raju
11	Thirumangalam	RB Udhayakumar
12	Sivakasi	KT Rajenthra Bhalaji