The Tiruvallur (reserved) parliamentary constituency, comprising of six assembly segments, namely Gummidipoondi, Ponneri, Tiruvallur, Poonamallee, Avadi and Madhavaram, will witness a straight contest between Congress candidate, S. Sasikanth Senthil, a former bureaucrat who quit the civil services in protest against the functioning of the Narendra Modi government and joined the party in 2019, and the DMDK candidate K. Nallathambi, a former MLA in 2011, elected from Egmore constituency.
While the AIADMK had won this seat in 2009 and 2014, the Congress candidate, K. Jeyakumar, took the seat from the party in 2019. This time around, the Congress pulled off a surprise by fielding Mr. Sasikanth, who was credited with running the party’s ‘War Room’ during the Karnataka Assembly election.
