“People have understood that both Congress and BJP are two sides of the same coin.
They have not done enough for the Tamils.
We want to bring about a change—a corruption and communalism-less society,” Udayakumar, who uses microblogging site Twitter for his campaigning, said.
“Since we are activists, people would know that we are principled and are really with the aam aadmi like we always used to,” said Udayakumar, who had been the spearhead of the anti-KNPP stir in the past three years.
AAP's candidates announced so far are—J Prabhakar (Chennai Central), Pon Chandran (Coimbatore), K K Kumarasamy (Erode), S P Udayakumar (Kanniyakumari), Satheesh Kumar (Salem), M Pushparayan (Tuticorin), Jesuraj M P (Tirunelveli), and R Chakravarthy Rajagopalakrishnan (Tiruppur).