Of the seven candidates, four are incumbents — Karti Chidambaram, Manickam Tagore, S Jothimani, and Vijay Vasanth.
Karti Chidambaram (left), Manickam Tagore (centre), S Jothimani (right).
The All India Congress Committee (AICC) announced its list of candidates for seven Lok Sabha constituencies in Tamil Nadu on Saturday, 23 March. The list also included candidates for Lok Sabha constituencies in other states.
Of the seven candidates, four are incumbents — Karti Chidambaram from the Sivagangai constituency, Manickam Tagore from the Virudhunagar constituency, S Jothimani from the Karur constituency, and Vijay Vasanth from the Kanniyakumari constituency.
Except for Vijay Vasanth, the other three were elected as Members of Parliament for their respective constituencies during the 2019 general elections. Vijay Vasanth entered active politics after the death of his father Vasanthakumar, who was the sitting MP of the Kanniyakumari Lok Sabha constituency, due to Covid. He contested and won the by-poll in 2021.
कांग्रेस अध्यक्ष श्री @kharge की अध्यक्षता में आयोजित 'केंद्रीय चुनाव समिति' की बैठक में लोकसभा चुनाव, 2024 के लिए 46 सीटों पर कांग्रेस उम्मीदवारों के नाम की चौथी लिस्ट। pic.twitter.com/JnroTFK21c
— Congress (@INCIndia) March 23, 2024
The AICC also named former IAS officer Sasikanth Senthil as the candidate from the Thiruvallur (SC) Lok Sabha constituency. Earlier in the year, Senthil was appointed Chairman of the AICC war room for Lok Sabha elections.
The Congress named Arani MP Dr MK Vishnu Prasad as the candidate from the Cuddalore constituency. Prasad is the working president of the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee. In the 2019 general election, he contested on a Congress ticket from the Arani Lok Sabha constituency and won.
From the Krishnagiri constituency, the Congress named former MLA K Gopinath as its candidate. He was elected to the Tamil Nadu Assembly from the Hosur constituency in the 2001[2] and 2006 elections.
The top Congress leadership met in New Delhi on Friday, 22 March, to discuss and finalise its candidates for nine Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu. The party’s Central Election Committee (CEC) met under the chairmanship of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, with former party chief Rahul Gandhi in attendance.
AICC general secretary (organisation) KC Venugopal and party leaders from Tamil Nadu were present at the meeting. Senior Congress leaders Ajoy Kumar and Harish Chaudhary were also present.
The ruling party in Tamil Nadu, the DMK, and the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC) jointly announced the seats from which the Congress will contest in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, on Monday, 18 March.
The list of seats – nine from Tamil Nadu and one in Puducherry – shows Congress has retained six seats from 2019 list and three seats have even replaced.
On 9 March, the DMK announced the allocation of 9 seats in Tamil Nadu and the lone Puducherry seat to Congress.
(Edited by Kamna Revanoor)
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