Khushbu, Vanathi Srinivasan, H Raja excessive BJP names for Tamil Nadu Meeting polls

The BJP on Sunday launched its first guidelines of 17 candidates for the Tamil Nadu Meeting polls. State president L Murugan, actor-turned-politician Khushbu Sundar, excellent woman chief Vanathi Srinivasan and former get collectively nationwide secretary H Raja had been among the many many excellent faces inside the guidelines.
The saffron get collectively, which is in alliance with the ruling AIADMK, is contesting 20 seats and might resolve its remaining three nominees inside the coming days.
DMK MLA Dr P Saravanan, who quit the get collectively on Sunday morning to affix BJP, moreover figures inside the guidelines that the saffron get collectively put out inside the night time. He effectively contested the 2019 Thiruparankundram bypoll on a DMK ticket.
Whereas Murugan will contest from Dharapuram constituency in Tirupur district, Khushbu, who dumped the Congress simply currently to embrace saffron, has been fielded from Thousand Lights constituency in Chennai metropolis. She would face Dr N Ezhilan, a model new face in politics contesting on a DMK ticket. Whereas a rookie in electoral politics, Ezhilan is a physician from a excellent family close to late DMK patriarch and former chief minister M Karunanidhi.
Some of the senior and controversial leaders of the get collectively, Raja will enter the fray from Karaikudi constituency. He was fielded by the BJP from the Sivaganga Lok Sabha seat in 2019 nevertheless misplaced.
The get collectively’s nationwide ladies’s wing president, Vanathi Srinivasan is taken under consideration as one in all many few trendy faces of the BJP inside the state. Although seen as a winnable candidate inside the constituency, she’s going to face a hard drawback from actor-turned-politician and Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) Kamal Haasan. The MNM is alleged to have constructed base for itself in Coimbatore South inside the 2019 LS polls and can spring a shock this time. Mayura S Jayakumar of the Congress will rival Srinivasan and Haasan for this seat.
MR Gandhi will contest from Nagercoil constituency, one in all many BJP strongholds inside the state, whereas former Karnataka-cadre IPS officer Ok Annamalai, get collectively youth wing president Vinoj P Selvam, former AIADMK minister Nainar Nagendran will contest the Aravakurichi, Harbour and Tirunelveli constituencies respectively.