Communist Party of India (CPI) today announced its candidates name for eight Lok Sabha constituencies in Tamil Nadu and one for Puducherry. The Party has said that it will contest from these constituencies only of the 39 Lok Sabha Seats in the State.
The constituencies include Nagapattinam (G Palaniswamy), Tirupur (R Subbarayan ex-MP), Thenkasi (P Lingam, MP), Tirvallur (A S Kannan ex-MLA), Cuddalore (K Balasubramanian), Thoothukudi (A Mohanraj, advocate), Sivagangai (S Krishnan, advocate), Ramanathapuram (R T Uma Maheswari). In Puducherry (R Viswanathan, former Minister).
Of the total eight seats which the party is panning to contest in Tamil Nadu, three are reserved, including Thenkasi, Nagapattinam and Tiruvallur.
It may be noted, the two communist parties -CPI-M and CPI- have decided to contest from 18 constituencies -17 in Tamil Nadu and one Puducherry- in the April general elections. Initially the two left parties were planning to contest along with AIADMK, but the alliance broke as AIADMK refused to share more than one seat each to the left parties while announcing its list of candidates for all the 40 seats (39 in Tamil Nadu and one in Puducherry).
During the 2009 elections the two communist parties contested from three seats each.
While the CPI won Thenkasi seat, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) won in Coimbatore.
CPI-M on Monday announced nine candidates including CPI(M)'s sitting Lok Sabha member P R. Natarajan would contest from Coimbatore, while U Vasuki, senior leader of the party's women's wing AIDWA will be contesting from North Chennai.
The other candidates are A V Bellarmin from Kanyakumari (he had won this seat in 2004), B. Vikaraman from Madurai, G Anandhan from Villipuram (SC), K. Sameulraj (Virudhunagar), N Pandi (Dindigul), S Sridhar (Tiruchi) and another AIDWA leader S Thamizhselvi (Thanjavur).
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