LS Polls: BJP Announces Fourth List Of Candidates, Radhika Sarathkumar Fielded In TN's Virudhunagar

BJP candidate list: The development comes after Radhika's husband Sarathkumar merged his Akila Indiya Samathuva Makkal Katchi (AISMK) with the BJP two weeks back. 

The fourth list of BJP comes a day after the saffron-party released its third list of candidates for the polls on Thursday. 

Source : Facebook/RadhikaSarathkumar

BJP candidate list: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has released its fourth list of Lok Sabha candidates marking a significant development in the upcoming Lok Sahba elections in Puducherry and Tamil Nadu. The fourth list of BJP comes a day after the saffron-party released its third list of candidates for the polls on Thursday. 

Among the notable names in this list is veteran actor Radhika Sarathkumar, who has been nominated to contest from the Virudhunagar constituency. The development comes after Radhika's husband Sarath Kumar merged his Akila Indiya Samathuva Makkal Katchi (AISMK) with the BJP two weeks back. 

Radhika's nomination also comes at a time when speculations are rife that DMDK chief Vijayakanth's son Shanmuga Pandian will contest from Virudhunagar consituency. 

BJP Fourth Candidate List

BJP high command released a list of 15 candidates and their constituencies:

Puducherry - A Namassivayam 
Tiruvallur (SC) - Balaganapathy 
Chennai North - Paul Kanagaraj 
Tiruvannamalai - Ashwathaman 
Namakkal - KP Ramalingam 
Tiruppur - AP Muruganandam 
Pollachi - Vasantharajan 
Karur - VV Senthilnathan 
Chidambaram (SC) - Karthiyayini 
Nagapattinam (SC) - SGM Ramesh 
Thanjavur - Muruganandam
Sivaganga - Devanathan Yadav
Virudhunagar - Radhika Sarathkumar 
Madurai - Raama Sreenivasan 
Tenkasi - John Pandian.

The candidate in the third list included Tamilisai Soundararajan (Chennai South), Vinoj P Selvam (Chennai Central), AC Shanmmugam (Vellore), C Narsimhan (Krishnagiri), L Murugan (Nilgiris), K Annamalai (Coimbatore), TR Paarivendhar (Perambudur), Nainar Nagendran (Thoothukkudi) and Pon Radhakrishnan (Kanniyakumari).

Previously, the BJP announced 267 candidates in two lists released on March 2 and March 13. The initial list, comprising 195 names, included prominent figures such as Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Kiren Rijiju, Tapir Gao, Rajeev Chandrashekhar, Shivraj Singh Chauhan, Arjun Ram Meghwal, Bandi Sanjay Kumar, Ajay Mishra Teni, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, and Nisith Pramanick, among others.

Tamil Nadu is set to vote for Lok Sabha Polls on April 19.