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Pennagaram byelection planning to hit the campaign trail next week
Posted by ganesh in Communication, Dharmapuri, Information, Political, Politics, competition, election, programme on March 20th, 2010
Campaign for the Pennagaram byelection, scheduled to be held on 27 March, is set to hot up, with leaders of political parties, including Chief Minister and DMK president M Karunanidhi, AIADMK general secretary J Jayalalithaa, Deputy Chief Minister MK Stalin and DMDK leader Vijayakanth planning to hit the campaign trail next week.
While Karunanidhi is likely to address a public meeting at Pennagaram on 24 March, Jayalalithaa will tour the constituency on 22 and 23 March. PMK leaders, including its founder S Ramadoss, were the early birds as they went into campaigning mode several weeks ago.
Jayalalithaa is scheduled to speak at 18 places across the constituency canvassing votes for Anbazhagan, her party candidate. Stalin will also kickstart a three-day campaign in the constituency from 23 March in support of DMK candidate P N P Inbasekaran.
A host of Ministers including EV Velu, Veerapandi S Arumugam, K Ponmudy, K N Nehru, Suba Thangavelan and Thangam Thennarasu are already camping at Pennagaram and involved in a door-to-door campaign.
Actor-politician Vijayakanth, who is busy with his directorial debut Viruthagiri, will take time off from his shooting schedule and campaign for party candidate Kaveri Varman for five days from 21 March.
The DMK is leaving no stone unturned for ensuring victory in the byelection. For, the stakes are high for the ruling party, as it wants to maintain its winning momentum. The DMK-Congress alliance has won all the 10 seats that witnessed by-elections so far.
Winning Pennagaram, once its pocket borough, is a prestigious issue for the PMK as the party suffered total rout in the Lok Sabha elections last year. The DMDK, which lost its deposit during the past two bypolls, is under pressure to improve its performance in Pennagaram.
The AIADMK’s campaign seems to be lacklustre so far, but is expected to get a fillip with the visit of Jayalalithaa.
Leaders of the CPI and CPI(M) will step up their campaign in support of the AIADMK candidate in the coming days.
supplementary, released electoral roll for Pennagaram assembly
Posted by ganesh in Communication, Departments, Dharmapuri, Information, Political, Politics, Public, competition, election, government, programme on March 11th, 2010
The supplementary electoral roll for Pennagaram assembly constituency, going to byelection on March 27, was released today.
Releasing it, District Election Officer cum Collector P Amudha said as per the roll the total electorate was 2,01,008 comprising 1,02,892 men voters and 98,116 women voters.
In the draft roll released on January 5, the total electorate was 1,79,536 which went up to 1,98,525 in the supplementary draft roll-1.
The process of inclusion and deletion was carried out as per record and no suo motto deletion was done by the Election Department, she stated.
Amudha also said applications for inclusion were received upto Mar 2 and verification was done till March 9.
She also said 47 cases had been registered for violation of model code of conduct — 22 against DMK, 18 against PMK, four against AIADMK and others three.
In view of demand by political parties, the number of check posts had been increased in the constituency.
She said there was no partiality in screening vehicles passing through the check posts.
Five companies of CRPF had been requisitioned for poll duty, she said.
Meanwhile, Revenue and police teams seized 400 sarees and 300 dhoties stored in a farmer`s house in Thinnabellur last night. – Agencies
IUML will extend its support to DMK candidate in the byelection in Pennagaram
Posted by ganesh in Departments, Politics, Thiruvarur, election, programme on December 28th, 2009
The Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) will extend its support to DMK candidate in the byelection to the Pennagaram Assembly constituency to be held on January 20 next year.
In a statement today, party state president and former MP K M Khader Mohideen said a resolution to this effect was adopted at the party’s state executive held at Ayyampettai near here yesterday.
He claimed that the people of Tiruchendur and Vandavasi Assembly constituencies have shown faith in democracy and exercised their franchise in favour of the ruling DMK in the recent by-elections.
The IUML would work for the victory of DMK candidate in the Pennagaram Assembly segment, he added.
The meeting also thanked AICC president and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for presenting the Justice Ranganath Mishra Commission report in Parliament and appealed to them to implement the recommendations.
The meeting called up on the Muslim scholars to participate in the World Classical Tamil Conference to be held at Coimbatore and establish a link between Tamil and Arabic languages,
The DMK announced its candidate for the Pennagaram bypoll
Posted by ganesh in Chennai, Dharmapuri, Others, Politics, competition, election, government on December 26th, 2009
The DMK is playing its cards safe. Today, the ruling party of the Tamilnadu announced its candidate for the Pennagaram bypoll scheduled on 20 January. P N P Inbasekaran, son of DMK MLA P N Periannan, due to whose death the byelection was necessiated, will contest the election on behalf the ruling party.
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It is to be noted that the DMK fielded J Kamalakannan, son of former legislator S P Jayaraman, in the recently concluded byelection for the Vandavasi seat.
Inbasekaran was earlier made the district in-charge of the party affairs, immediately after his father passed away due to illness on 1 December.
If sources are to be believed, the candidate selection was made by party president and Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, as Inbasekaran is a known face in the constituency and fielding him would increase the chance of winning the poll.
Meanwhile, the Election Commission has intimated to the PMK that it would not be possible to change the byelection schedule of the Pennagaram Assembly constituency, slated to go to polls on 20 January.
In its letter to K Balu, president of PMK’s legal wing, the Election Commission has said it had taken note of all relevant factors, including the Pongal festival, before announcing the election schedule.
It is said that a similar request by the main opposition AIADMK to defer the bypoll will also not be entertained by the Election Commission. The Pennagaram bypoll will be the eleventh byelection in the current Assembly.
Periannan is the sixth MLA to pass away in the 13th Assembly. The first was a Minister in the DMK government, P T R Palanivel Rajan, a former Speaker.
This was followed by the death of MLAs S P Jayaraman (DMK), D Selvaraj (Congress), S V Shanmugam (AIADMK) and former POTA detainee and MDMK leader Veera Ilavarasan. Apart from this, four MLAs shifted their loyalties, while one resigned to contest the Lok Sabha election.
The ruling DMK and its alliance partners emerged triumphants in all the byelections held after 2006, including the recent concluded bypolls for Tiruchendur and Vandavasi.
We respect EC: Karunanidhi DMK president and Chief Minister M Karunanidhi today said his party respected the Election Commission a lot and would abide by the announcement of the EC to hold the Pennagaram bypoll on 20 January.
The octogenarian politician, who is resting at his daughter’s house in Bangalore, however said the Election Commission had not consulted the State government before announcing the bypoll date. ‘
But DMK is a party which has a lot of respect for the Election Commission. Hence we will follow whatever the Commission tells us,
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