In the first list, the party named nominees for 20 parliamentary constituencies and nine Assembly seats.

The Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (AMMK), led by R.K. Nagar legislator, T.T.V. Dhinakaran, on March17 released its first list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections and Assembly bypolls.

In the first list, the party named nominees for 20 parliamentary constituencies and nine Assembly seats. While the AMMK has decided to field candidates in 38 Lok Sabha seats, it has allotted Central Chennai to its ally, Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI).

Polling for the 39 parliamentary and 18 Assembly constituencies in the State will be on April 18. The Assembly by-elections for 17 seats have been caused due to the disqualification of legislators, who owed allegiance to Mr Dhinakaran.

Nine disqualified legislators have been fielded as AMMK’s candidates in their original constituencies.

Name Constituency T.A. Elumalai Poonamallee P. Vetrivel Perambur M. Kothandapani Thiruporur C. Jayanthi Padmanabhan Gudiyatham R. Balasubramani Ambur R. Murugan Harur S. Mariappan Kennady Manamadurai S.G. Subramanian Sattur S. Muthiah Paramakudi

Among the prominent candidates being fielded by the AMMK for the Lok Sabha polls are:

Sarubala R Tondaman Tiruchi Former Law Minister Isakki Subbiah South Chennai Former Assembly Speaker K. Kalimuthu’s son K. David Annadurai Madurai Retired IAS officer M. Ramasami Nilgiris Former MLA N. Ganapathy Villupuram Former MLA S.K. Selvam Salem Former MLA Pon Raja Tiruvallur Former MLA M. Rajasekaran Perambalur

Other candidates for the Lok Sabha seats:

G. Tambaram Narayanan Sriperumpudur A. Munusamy Kancheepuram P.P. Saminathan Namakkal K.C. Senthilkumar Erode S.R. Selvam Tiruppur N.R. Appadurai Coimbatore S. Muthukumar Pollachi N. Thangavel Karur A. Elavarasan Chidambaram S. Senthamizhan Mayiladuthurai T. Sengodi Nagapattinam P. Murugesan Thanjavur V. Pandi Sivaganga V.T.N. Anand Ramanathapuram A.S. Ponnuthai Tenkasi R. Gnana Arulmani Tirunelveli

The list for the Parliamentary constituencies has three women candidates and that of Assembly by-polls, one.