Vaiko’s nomination accepted, set to return to rajya sabha after 23 years
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According to a statement issued by K.Srinivasan, Returning Officer and Assembly Secretary, a total of seven nominations were accepted and four were rejected. As there were apprehension about
his nomination not being accepted, Vaiko had asked DMK President M.K. Stalin to field an alternate candidate from his party. Accordingly N.R. Elango of the DMK had also filed his nomination
which was also accepted. He is likely to withdraw from the race. The other contestants are: M. Shanmugham and P. Wilson (both DMK), A. Mohammed John and N. Chandrasekaran (both AIADMK) and
Anbumani Ramadoss of PMK. The AIADMK has 123 MLAs in the 234-member Tamil Nadu Assembly, while the DMK has a strength of 101. DMK ally Congress has seven MLAs, there is one Independent
member, while two seats are vacant. The elections are being held to fill up the vacancies caused by the retirement of five Rajya Sabha members -- T. Rathinavel, V. Maitreyan, K.B. Arjunan,
R. Lakshmanan (all AIADMK), and D. Raja (CPI) -- and the resignation of DMK's Kanimozhi following her win in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.