Chennai: Stealing a march over other political parties, AIADMK supremo and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa on Monday announced candidates for 40 Lok Sabha constituencies in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. Addressing a press conference on the occasion of her 66th birthday, she declared that her party would fight the upcoming Lok Sabha elections on the plank of “peace, progress and prosperity” and her “wish is to win 40 seats.”
Though her party has already entered into a poll pact with the Left parties CPI and CPM, Ms Jayalalithaa named candidates for 39 seats in Tamil Nadu and the lone seat in Puducherry, but said the party would withdraw candidates from seats allocated to allies.
“The alliance talks with CPI and CPM were still on and no conclusion has been reached so far. Therefore, AIADMK will withdraw its candidates in constituencies that will go for allies”, she said.
