TTV Dinakaran to contest RK Nagar by poll

TTV Dinakaran, the leader of the Sasikala faction of the AIADMK, on Monday said that he would contest the by poll from Chennai's RK Nagar seat which was left vacant after former chief minister J Jayalalitha's demise.

The Election Commission had on October 12 said that the by election to Dr. Radhakrishnan Nagar (R K Nagar) assembly constituency will be held before December 31.

"I will contest in the RK Nagar bypoll," Dinakaran told the media today.

The by-election scheduled for April 12 in RK Nagar was canceled by the poll body following allegations of distribution of cash to voters.

The seat fell vacant following the death of former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and AIADMK Chief J Jayalalithaa in December last year. The election commission decided to countermand the bypoll that was scheduled to take place in April this year after evidences of rampant corrupt electoral practices and bribery emerged.

The two warring factions of the AIADMK had decided to go their seperate ways in the R K Nagar bypoll with the party's symbol and name being frozen by the Election Commission. The ECI is likely to decide on the Two-leaves symbol row before the bypoll is scheduled in R K Nagar constituency again.

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