LS polls: BJP fields Tamilisai Soundararajan from Chennai South, Annamalai from Coimbatore
Former Union minister Pon Radhakrishnan will contest from Kanniyakumari.
BJP leaders Tamilisai Soundararajan (left) and K Annamalai. Photo: X/@annamalai_k
The BJP on Thursday (March 21) fielded former Telangana governor Tamilisai Soundararajan from Chennai South and Tamil Nadu unit chief K Annamalai from Coimbatore for the Lok Sabha polls.
The party named its candidates for nine Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu. This is the BJP's third list of candidates for the Lok Sabha elections.
The party fielded former DMK leader and sitting MP T R Paarivendhar and Union Minister L Murugan from Perambalur and Nilgiris respectively.
Former Union minister Pon Radhakrishnan will contest from Kanniyakumari.
Vinoj P Selvam will contest from Chennai Central, A C Shanmugam from Vellore, C Narasimhan from Krishnagiri, and Nainar Nagendran from Thoothukkudi, the party said.
Polling in the state's 39 Lok Sabha seats will be held in the first phase on April 19.
The BJP did not win a single seat from Tamil Nadu in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.