Chennai: A day after changing her party candidate for Aruppukottai, AIADMK leader and Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today replaced 12 more nominees for the May 16 Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.
Prominent among those who have got the ticket now are former minister S Semmalai, AIADMK Executive Committee member and Women's Wing Deputy Secretary CR Saraswathi, Madurai Mayor VV Rajan Chellappa and sitting legislator A Murugesan.
Mr Semmalai, the party's organisation secretary, will now contest from Mettur where A Chandrasekaran was named as the nominee in the list of AIADMK candidates for 227 seats announced on April 4.
Mr Chellappa is the new AIADMK candidate for Madurai North constituency in place of MS Pandian.
Mr Manian has also been made the district secretary of party's Nagapattinam District unit in place of KA Jayapal, who was the in-charge of the unit.
Other constituencies where the candidates have been changed include T Nagar, Kattumannarkoil (Reserved), Poompuhar, and Mannargudi in Tamil Nadu. In Puducherry, she announced new candidates for Tirubhuvanai (SC), Tirunallar and Karaikal south constituencies.
Prominent among those who have got the ticket now are former minister S Semmalai, AIADMK Executive Committee member and Women's Wing Deputy Secretary CR Saraswathi, Madurai Mayor VV Rajan Chellappa and sitting legislator A Murugesan.
Mr Semmalai, the party's organisation secretary, will now contest from Mettur where A Chandrasekaran was named as the nominee in the list of AIADMK candidates for 227 seats announced on April 4.
Mr Chellappa is the new AIADMK candidate for Madurai North constituency in place of MS Pandian.
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Mr Manian has also been made the district secretary of party's Nagapattinam District unit in place of KA Jayapal, who was the in-charge of the unit.
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Other constituencies where the candidates have been changed include T Nagar, Kattumannarkoil (Reserved), Poompuhar, and Mannargudi in Tamil Nadu. In Puducherry, she announced new candidates for Tirubhuvanai (SC), Tirunallar and Karaikal south constituencies.
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