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BJP fields women for Nellai, Thoothukudi for Tamil Nady by polls

Some BJP candidates were stopped from filing their papers
Chennai: The BJP which is nurturing the ambition in projecting itself as an “alternative force” in the state has decided to take on the ruling AIADMK, backed by its allies. The saffron party has nominated two women candidates, K. Jayalakshmi and R. Vellaiammal, to take on the AIADMK’s women candidates in Thoothukudi and Tirunelveli corporations. Both are greenhorns. Though the party suffered a defeat in Pudukottai and other places where its candidates were prevented from submitting their papers on Thursday, the last date for filing of nominations, it is confident of making its presence felt in the polls.
State BJP president Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan said that her party managed to nominate candidates for the bypolls in a short span of time.
“But the disheartening factor is that our candidate for the Pudukottai town panchayat president’s post, Pazha Selvam, and other candidates in Villupuram were prevented from filing their papers. Our candidates and cadres were assaulted by miscreants and later arrested by police for staging an agitation, protesting against the prevention of submitting nominations,” she said.
The Election Commission should take note of this situation and specify a date for candidates who were restrained, and thus unable them to file their papers. State government should take action on officials who failed to accept papers, she urged.
BJP Coimbatore district president R. Nandakumar, fielded for the Kovai mayoral poll, is no novice. He unsuccessfully contested from the Kavundampalayam constituency in the 2011 assembly election and has been serving the party since 1989. He will lock horns with AIADMK’s Coimbatore urban district secretary Ganapathy P. Rajkumar.
( Source : dc )
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