Erode (East) bypoll: DMK, NTK candidates file nominations

DMK candidate V.C. Chandhirakumar submits his nomination papers for the Erode (East) Meeting bypoll to the Returning Officer and Company Commissioner N. Manish, in Erode on Friday
| Photograph Credit score: M. Govarthan

Naam Tamilar Katchi candidate M.Ok. Seethalakshmi strolling to the company workplace by herself to file her nomination for the Erode (East) Meeting bypoll, in Erode on Friday
| Photograph Credit score:
M. Govarthan

The ruling DMK candidate V.C. Chandhirakumar and Naam Tamilar Katchi’s (NTK) nominee M.Ok. Seethalakshmi filed their nominations on Friday (January 17, 2025) for the Erode (East) Meeting bypoll, scheduled to be held on February 5.

The nominees submitted their papers to the Returning Officer (RO) and Company Commissioner N. Manish on the Company Central Workplace. Friday is the final day of submitting nominations.

With main political events, together with the AIADMK and BJP, boycotting the bypoll necessitated by the passing of Congress legislator E.V.Ok.S. Elangovan, the competition will primarily be between Mr. Chandhirakumar and Ms. Seethalakshmi. That is the second bypoll within the constituency since Might 2021, when the present Meeting was constituted. In 2023, the constituency noticed a bypoll after the demise of E. Thirumahan Everaa, the son of Elangovan.

Earlier than submitting his nomination, Mr. Chandhirakumar led a procession with bands and occasion functionaries from the election workplace close to GH Roundabout. The DMK’s Rajya Sabha MP Anthiyur P. Selvaraj, government committee member Kumarasamy, district deputy secretary Senthil Kumar, and Elangovan’s son E. Sanjay Sampath participated within the procession.

Mr. Chandhirakumar stated he would be sure that the initiatives of the 2 late legislators would proceed to be carried out within the constituency. He pressured the welfare schemes carried out underneath the ‘Dravidian mannequin’ of governance had reached the folks of the phase.

“There is no such thing as a want to provide particular assurances to the voters within the constituency, because the Minister for Housing and City Growth S. Muthusamy has already been planning and executing schemes right here,” he stated.

When requested about NTK candidate Ms. Seethalakshmi’s complaints about points within the constituency, he remarked: “Our nation is advancing with the event of recent science, however their chief (Seeman) continues to ask folks to make use of bullock carts. Contesting with such a celebration is an irony of our occasions,” he stated.

The 57-year-old candidate claimed he had been in public life for 40 years and understood the wants of the constituency.

‘No permission to take out rally’

Ms. Seethalakshmi, alleging that the police denied her permission to take out a rally, walked to the company workplace by herself to file her nomination. She stated her occasion abided by the legislation however “the DMK doesn’t need to face the election democratically.”

Discovering fault in 60 years of Dravidian rule, claiming it had led to farmers and weavers shedding their livelihood, she alleged that “manjal maanagaram” (turmeric metropolis, as Erode is referred to) had quite a few most cancers instances as a result of poor waste administration within the metropolis.

She alleged that the dumping of poultry and different waste into the Kalingarayan canal, moreover poor drainage and insufficient stable waste administration programs within the 33 wards of the company, was adversely affecting the residents of the constituency.

She additional defended NTK chief-coordinator Mr. Seeman’s controversial remarks on Dravidar Kazhagam founder Periyar E.V. Ramasamy, contending, “Mr. Seeman solely recalled what Periyar had stated.”