Tamil Nadu polls: Here's AIADMK's list of 227 candidates
There are old stalwarts of the party like O Panneerselvam, Gokula Indra and Ponnaiyan along with some new faces who will run on the AIADMK ticket this year.
On Monday, AIADMK chief and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa named candidates for 227 seats of the total 234 while leaving only seven seats for smaller allies. The list includes old stalwarts of the party like O Panneerselvam, Gokula Indra and Ponnaiyan as well as new faces who will run on the AIADMK ticket this year. The CM is contesting the polls from RK Nagar where she won successfully last time.
Sitting Ministers SP Velumani, Sellur K Raju, RB Udayakumar, and KT Rajendrabalaji, Assembly Deputy Speaker Pollachi V Jayaraman and former DGP of Tamil Nadu R Natraj also figure in the list.
K Pandiarajan, a rebel DMDK MLA who joined the AIADMK, was also given a seat to contest along with Panruti Ramachandran. However, out of the nine MLAs who came to the AIADMK from the DMDK only two were given seats to contest. PT Elangovan, a former PMK MP, who fell out with party founder S Ramadoss, was allotted a seat in the Dharmapuri constituency.
Here are the list of candidates for the AIADMK:
Jayalalithaa - RK Nagar
O Panneerselvam - Bodinayakkanur
Former DGP R. Natraj - Mylapore
KS Vijaykumar - Gummidipoondi
P Balaraman - Ponneri
PM Narasimhan - Tiruttani
A Baskaran - Thiruvallur
V Alexander - Ambattur
TA Ezhumalai - Poonamallee
D Jayakumar - Royapuram
P Dhanapal - Avinashi
Natham Vishwanathan - Aathur
Parithi Ellamvazhuthi - Egmore
Panruti Ramachandran - Alandur
C Ponnaiyan - Saidapet
MC Munusamy - Velachery
KS Seenivasan - Harbour
VN Ravi - Virugambakkam
Saraswathi Rengasamy - Theagaraya Nagar
Leo N Sundaram - Shollinganallur
M Kothandapani - Thiruporur
Mythili Thirunavukkarasu - Kancheepuram
Walajabad P Ganesan - Uthiramerur
K Palani - Sriperumbudur
KA Senkotaiyan - Gobichettipalayam
Thousand Lights - Valarmathi
Karunas - Thiruvadanai
Gokula Indira - Anna Nagar
CV Elangovan - Pallavaram
V Neelakandan - Thiru Vi Ka Nagar
Chitlapakkam Rajendran - Tambaram
R Kamalakannan - Chengalpattu
Kasturi Vasu - Valparai
Arun Kumar - Coimbatore North
Arjunan - Coimbatore South
Singai Muthu - Singanallur
Velumani - Thondamuthur
A Natarajan - Palladam
V Senthil Balaji - Aravakurichi
Vinod - Udhagamandalam
Kalaichelvan - Gudalur
Ramu - Coonnor
OK Chinnaraj - Mettupalayam
Vijayakumar - Tirupur North
Easwaran - Bhavanisagar
Karupannan - Bhavani
Raja Krishnan - Anthiyur
VP Subramani - Modakuruchi
Ponnusamy - Dharapuram
A Noor Jahan - Chepauk
Seval R Velu - Vikravandi
Kumaraguru - Ulundurpet
Seval G Kothandaraman - Thirukoyilur
Rajasekhar - Sankarapuram
Prabhu - Kallakurichi
CV Shanmugam - Villupuram
M Chakrapani - Vaanur
Annadurai - Mailam
SP Rajendran - Tindivanam
Meghanathan - Vandavasi
Govindasamy - Gingee
Sevoor Ramachandran - Aarani
K Mohan - Cheyyar
Sellur K Raju - Madurai West
M Jayapal - Madural Central
SS Saravanan - Madurai South
MS Pandian - Madurai North
M Manikandan - Ramanathapuram
G Venkatachalam - Salem West
KRS Saravanan - Salem North
AB Sakthivel - Salem South
KS Thennarasu - Erode East
R Varadharajan - Erode West
S Tamizharasi - Tiruchi West
R Manoharan - Tiruchi East
Nainar Nagendran - Tirunelveli
M Vijaykumar - Nanguneri
Thalavai Sundaram - Kanyakumari
V Dorothy Samson - Nagercoil
NG Parthiban - Sholingur
SRK Appu - Katpadi
Sumaithangi C. Elumalai - Ranipet
KV Ramdas - Arcot
Neelakantan - Vellore
M Kalai Arasu- Anaicut
G Loganathan - Kilvaithinankuppam
Alliance candidates:
Sarathkumar - Thiruchendur
A Munusamy - Cheyyur
KC Manivannan - Arakkonam