Puducherry: DMK releases list of 12 candidates for April 6 Assembly polls

The party announced nominees for seats including Urulayanpettai, Mudaliarpet Tai and Raj Bhavan and said in a statement that the candidate for Bagur will be named later.

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Puducherry, First Published Mar 13, 2021, 1:31 PM IST

The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) on Saturday released a list of 13 constituencies the party will contest the upcoming Puducherry assembly elections and named 12 candidates.

The party announced nominees for seats including Urulayanpettai, Mudaliarpet Tai and Raj Bhavan and said in a statement that the candidate for Bagur will be named later.

While sitting legislator R Siva has shifted his constituency to Villianur after leaving his traditional constituency Orleanpet to recently-inducted businessman S Gopal, former Ministers SP Sivakumar and AMH Nazeem will contest from the seats which they won in the past, Raj Bhavan and Karaikal South, respectively.

The list was released by DMK president MK Stalin at Chennai on Saturday.

Other candidates are V Anibal Kennedy (Uppalam constituency), L Sampath (Mudaliarpet), Sun Kumaravel (Mangalam), V Karthikeyan (Nellithope), A Krishnan alias AK Kumar (Mannadipet), S Muthuvel (Kalapet), A Mugilan (Thirubuvanai, reserved constituency) and M Nahathyagarajan (Neravy TR Pattinam)

On February 26, the Election Commission had announced the schedule for assembly elections to be held in West Bengal, Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.

Polling for the 30-member Puducherry assembly will be held in one phase on April 6 and the results will be declared on May 2.

Last Updated Mar 13, 2021, 1:31 PM IST