CPIM candidates for Tamil Nadu assembly bye election

K Rajappan V Perumal

CPIM candidates for Tamil Nadu assembly bye election has been announced. CPI and CPIM has jointly taken the decision to contest 2 seats each out of the 5 seats that is going to the bye election on August. The CPI(M) is contesting Thondamuthur and Cumbum while CPI in Bargur and Srivaikuntam. The Fifth constituency , Ilayankudi seat will be allotted to a "friendly ally", the parties sources said. The CPIM candidates has been announced. The party’s Theni district secretary and state committee member K Rajappan (64) is the candidate for Cumbum constituency. Rajappan, hailing from Seeppalakottai village, completed his PUC at Haji Karutha Rawthar College in Uthamapalayam.He became the member of CPM way back in 1968 and is presently functioning as the district secretary of the party.When Theni was part of Madurai district, district committee secretary of the party and the state secretary of farmers union. IN Thondamuthur constituency the candidate is V Perumal (49), a resident of Periyanaickenpalayam, entered into politics as the member of Democratic Youth Front of India (DYFI), in 1979. He has been a full-time activist of the party from 1989.Presently, he holds the positions of CITU Coimbatore District Engineering Union secretary and the district executive committee member of the party. He is also the state committee member of the State Untouchability Abolition Front. AIDMK, PMK and MDMK had decided to boycott the polls.