
AMMK to contest independently in urban local bodies’ polls
The Hindu
Dhinakaran favours polls to be postponed by a month
The Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (AMMK) will face the urban local bodies’(ULB)elections on its own, according to T.T.V. Dhinakaran, the party’s general secretary.
After chairing a meeting at his party office in Chennai on Thursday, Mr Dhinakaran saidthe secretaries of his party’s district units and senior office bearers hadfinalisedcandidates for all the wards of the ULBs that would go to pollsand furnished the details to him.

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