The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday announced nine Lok Sabha candidates for Tamil Nadu. The saffron party has fielded the party’s state president K Annamalai from the Coimbatore seat.
The party has named ex-Telangana Governor Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan from Chennai South, Pon Radhakrishnan from Kanniyakumari and Nainar Nagendran from Tirunelveli.
Radhakrishnan has been a former minister in the Modi government and an ex-MP from Kanniyakumari. He will face a tough challenge in the constituency against Congress candidate Vijay Vasanth and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagham’s (AIADMK) Nazerath Pasilian.
Nagendran who is BJP’s sitting MLA from Tirunelveli constituency will contest against AIADMK’s Shimla Muthuchozhan and Congress’ Peter Alphonse.
The BJP also decided to give tickets to AC Shanmugam, the Puthiya Needhi Katchi (PNK) chief, from Vellore and also the sitting MP TR Paarivendhar from the Perambalur Lok Sabha constituency in Tamil Nadu on its symbol.
TR Paarivendhar is the leader of the Indhiya Jananayaga Katchi (IJK). Paarivendhar contested on MK Stalin-led Dravida Munnetra Kazhagham’s (DMK) symbol in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls and won the constituency. He will take on AIADMK’s ND Chandramohan and DMK candidate Arun Nehru in the constituency.
The party also declared Union Minister and Rajya Sabha member L Murugan as its candidate from the Nilgiris constituency. Murugan to challenge DMK’s A Raja and AIADMK’s D Lokesh Tamilselvan.
