T.N. Assembly election: AIADMK releases second list of candidates, retains 30 sitting legislators
The Hindu
AIADMK announces second candidate list for 2026 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, retaining 25 MLAs and including 16 women.
The AIADMK on Friday released its second list of candidates, numbering 127, for the upcoming Tamil Nadu Assembly election. Till now, the party has named 150 candidates including 23 in the first list.
According to the the second list released by party general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami, 25 sitting MLAs were retained and 10 others were dropped. The list also contained 16 women candidates. Prominent among those who did not figure in the list were former Ministers V. Saroja, V.M. Rajalakshmi, Vaigaichelvan, and ‘Ma Foi’ K. Pandiarajan, all of whom lost in the 2021 election.
Ex-Ministers on the list
Former Ministers who made it to the list included N. Thalavai Sundaram, M.C. Sampath, Be. Vee. Ramanah, V. Somasundaram, P. Balakrishna Reddy, Mukkur N. Subramanian, M.S.M. Anandan, Pollachi V. Jayaraman, S.P. Shanmuganathan, and S.T. Chellapandian. The sole AIADMK’s legislator in the Kancheepuram-Tiruvallur-Chengalpattu-Chennai belt, Maragatham Kumaravel, has been renominated for Madurantakam.
An interesting feature of the list was the inclusion of P. Saravanan, who in 2021 contested in the AIADMK-led front as a nominee of the BJP in Madurai (North). This time too, he is trying his luck from the same seat. Likewise, I. Mahendran, who has been chosen by the Dravidian major, contested in 2021 as the nominee of the Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (AMMK), now an ally of the AIADMK.
Later in the day, Mr. Palaniswami criticised the DMK president and Chief Minister M.K. Stalin for not being able to conclude the process of identification of constituencies for constituents of the DMK-led front.
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