RK Nagar Bypoll: AIADMK Announces E Madhusudhanan as its Candidate

The Election Commission last week announced that the RK Nagar Assembly bye-election will take place in December.

Chennai, Nov 30: E Madhusudhanan, the AIADMK presidium chairman, has been declared as the party’s candidate for Dr Radhakrishnan Nagar (RK Nagar) Assembly constituency bye-election, which is scheduled to be held on December 21. A few days back, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) announced journalist-turned-politician N Marudhu Ganesh as its candidate for the RK Nagar bypoll. (ALSO READ – Bye-election to RK Nagar, Sikandra, Sabang, Pakke-Kasand And Likabali Announced: Here is The Schedule)

The TTV Dhinakaran camp on Wednesday officially announced that the ousted AIADMK leader will contest the December 21 Radhakrishnan Nagar (RK Nagar) bypoll.

“TTV Dhinakaran will contest the forthcoming (RK Nagar) bypoll,” senior leader in the camp, S Anbazhagan told reporters here. Dhinakaran was contesting the bye election with the “approval” of his aunt, the deposed AIADMK leader V K Sasikala, he added.

Dhinakaran earlier contested the April 12 bypoll to the constituency, as then AIADMK (Amma) candidate. However, the polls were rescinded by the Election Commission following complaints of money distribution.

The Election Commission last week announced that the RK Nagar Assembly bye-election will take place in December. While voting for the RK Nagar bypoll will take place on December 21, the counting date has been decided as December 24.