NE NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, MAR 13
The Congress on Saturday night released a list of its 21 candidates for the April 6 assembly elections in Tamil Nadu.
The list was issued after a meeting of the Congress’ central election committee chaired by party chief Sonia Gandhi.
The Congress is contesting 25 of the 234 seats in the Tamil Nadu assembly, with the DMK fighting on a majority of the seats.
The Congress had contested 41 assembly seats in the last assembly polls.
The party also announced its candidate for the Kanyakumari Lok Sabha bye-elections, fielding V Vijayakumar, son of the late MP H. Vasanthakumar.
Four constituencies which were left out, which includes Vilavancode in Kannyakumari district, Ms. Vijayatharini was elected from this constituency during last election.
