Set against a scenic backdrop of lush mountains of the Western Ghats, the agrarian constituency of Theni, with its paddy fields and grape farms, stands as the last bastion of the AIADMK. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Theni was the only seat that AIADMK won. As the electoral battle picks up pace, two former AIADMK leaders and friends, AMMK chief T T V Dhinakaran and his former protégé DMK’s Thanga Tamilselvan, have been pitted against each other in Theni.
