Lok Sabha elections 2024: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has announced the names of 15 candidates for Tamil Nadu-Puducherry today (March 22).
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has fielded Dr Devanathan Yadav from Sivaganga, Pon V Balaganapathy from Tiruvallur and RC Paul Kanagaraj from Chennai North. The party also decided to give tickets to A Ashwathaman (Tiruvannamalai), KP Ramalingam (Namakkal), AP Muruganandam (Tiruppur), K Vasantharajan (Pollachi), VV Senthilnathan (Karur), P Karthiyayini (Chidambaram), SGM Ramesh (Nagapattinam), M Muruganandam (Thanjavur), Prof Raama Sreenivasan (Madurai), B John Pandian (Tenkasi) and Raadhika Sarathkumar (Virudhunagar).
The BJP in a big decision fielded A Namassivayam from the Puducherry Lok Sabha constituency. Namassivayam is the Home Minister of the Union Territory in the N Rangaswamy government.
Raadhika Sarathkumar, who has been given a ticket from Virudhunagar, is the wife of R Sarathkumar. The actor-turned-politician has recently merged his party All India Samathuva Makkal Katchi (AISMK) with the BJP in Tamil Nadu.
Tamil Nadu by-polls
The BJP has also announced candidates for the upcoming by-polls for Tamil Nadu and Tripura. VS Nanthini will be the party's candidate for the Vilavancode by-poll in Tamil Nadu and Dipak Majumder to contest from Tripura's Ramnagar.
BJP named its Lok Sabha poll candidates for 14 seats in Tamil Nadu and the lone seat of Puducherry. It has fielded A Namassivayam, a minister in the Puducherry government, from the union territory.
The party had names its candidates for nine Lok Sabha seats on Thursday. Among the allies, the party has allotted 10 seats to Dr Ramadoss-headed Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) while a few seats have been given to some smaller partners.
The BJP had on Thursday fielded its Tamil Nadu president K Annamalai from Coimbatore and Union Minister L Murugan from Nilgiris. It nominated former Telangana governor Tamilisai Soundararajan from Chennai South seat and ex-union minister Pon Radhakrishnan from Kanniyakumari, which he represented in 2014.
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