The Congress has entered the electoral fray in the Mayiladuthurai Lok Sabha constituency where it was routed in 2014.
The party has fielded R. Sudha — a Madras High Court advocate hailing from Gummidipoondi in Tiruvallur district and considered an “outsider”, in this predominantly agrarian constituency. The party is banking on the arithmetic of the alliance headed by the DMK to work in its favour.
The candidature of Ms. Sudha, State Mahila Congress president who accompanied party leader Rahul Gandhi during the Bharat Jodo Yatra from Kashmir to Kanniyakumari, came as a surprise when the party high command announced her as the candidate in the eleventh hour.
