
1,399 nominations filed in Tirunelveli district
The Hindu
TIRUNELVELIA total of 1,399 nominations were received on Tuesday from the people aspiring to contest local body polls to be conducted in the district in two phases on October 6 and 9. In Tirunelveli,
TIRUNELVELI
A total of 1,399 nominations were received on Tuesday from the people aspiring to contest local body polls to be conducted in the district in two phases on October 6 and 9.
In Tirunelveli, 15 nominations were received for the posts of district panchayat councillors to take the total number of nominations filed so far to 21, and 135 nominations were received for the posts of panchayat union ward councillors. For the village panchayat presidents, 193 candidates filed their nominations while 1,056 nominations were received for village panchayat ward member posts.

Away from the memorial of saint-composer Thyagaraja in Thiruvaiyaru, where his 179th aradhana is marked by five days of uninterrupted concerts, unchavritti and rendering of the Pancharatna kritis, a parallel aradhana is under way in Thanjavur. In the narrow Varagappa Iyer Lane off the bustling South Main Street, devotees queue up at a house named after Thyagaraja. It is here that the idols of Rama, Sita, Lakshmana, Bharata, Shatrughna and Anjaneya, worshipped by Thyagaraja himself, are preserved, along with a portrait of the saint-composer said to have been drawn by his disciples.












