Chennai: DMK nominees RS Bharathi and TKS Elangovan on Thursday filed their nominations for the June 11 Rajya Sabha elections to fill six vacancies from Tamil Nadu.
They filed their nomination papers with Assembly Secretary AMP Jamaludeen, who is the Returning Officer for the biennial elections.
A posse of DMK leaders including MK Stalin, Durai Murugan, TR Baalu and a number of DMK MLAs were present when Mr Bharathi and Mr Elangovan filed their nominations.
Mr Bharathi, an advocate and DMK's organisation secretary, had been chairman of Alandur Municipality in the past, while Mr Elangovan is a former Lok Sabha MP who had represented North Chennai constituency from 2009-14.
The tenure of six RS members from Tamil Nadu will end on June 29.
AIADMK's Navaneethakrishnan, A W Rabi Bernard and P H Paul Manoj Pandian and DMK's K P Ramalingam and S Thangavelu and former Union Minister and Congress leader Sudarsana Natchiappan are those who will be retiring in June.
Out of the six members, Navaneethakrishnan was elected in 2014 and others in 2010. He filled the vacancy caused by the disqualification of DMK's T M Selvaganapathi.
They filed their nomination papers with Assembly Secretary AMP Jamaludeen, who is the Returning Officer for the biennial elections.
A posse of DMK leaders including MK Stalin, Durai Murugan, TR Baalu and a number of DMK MLAs were present when Mr Bharathi and Mr Elangovan filed their nominations.
The tenure of six RS members from Tamil Nadu will end on June 29.
Advertisement
Out of the six members, Navaneethakrishnan was elected in 2014 and others in 2010. He filled the vacancy caused by the disqualification of DMK's T M Selvaganapathi.
Advertisement
COMMENTS
Advertisement
Ajit Pawar's Wife Files Papers As NCP Candidate For Rajya Sabha Polls Rajya Sabha To Face 10 Vacancies As Members Get Elected To Lok Sabha Will Disunity In INDIA Bloc Impact Election Results? What DMK Leader Said Trainee IAS Officer Puja Khedkar Recalled To Academy, Training Put On Hold What Trump Rally Shooter Did On Last Day Of His Life Engineer Stole NEET Question Paper From Exam Body's Trunk, Arrested By CBI "Proud Of My Classmate": Vivek Ramaswamy On JD Vance, Trump's Veep Pick Adani Group-Backed Sirius Digitech Acquires Cloud Platform Firm Coredge.io In Haryana, Amit Shah's Anti-Congress Warning On Muslim Reservation Track Latest News Live on NDTV.com and get news updates from India and around the world.