TN Assembly polls | Coimbatore South: a hotly contested Assembly seat

Coimbatore South Assembly constituency has, this Assembly election, suddenly been elevated to a high profile constituency, because of the high profile candidates. For, the constituency will see contest among a party president, the national president of a party’s women’s wing and in all probability the working president of the State unit of another party. With Makkal Needhi Maiam president Kamal Haasan announcing his candidature from the Coimbatore South constituency, the BJP is most likely to field its national women’s wing president Vanathi Srinivasan and the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee its working president Mayura S. Jayakumar, the profile of the constituency has been raised as never before.