The ruling DMK in Tamil Nadu on Tuesday, March 12, 2024, finalised its constituency allocation exercise with the two Left parties in its alliance, for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. Seat sharing talks with both parties were completed on February 29.
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has been allotted Madurai (a seat it holds now) as well as Dindigul; while the Communist Party of India has been allotted both seats that it holds now, the Nagapattinam and Tiruppur constituencies.
Madurai is represented by CPI (M)‘s Su. Venkatesan, a winner of the Sahitya Akademi award for his novel Kaval Kottam that traces the history of Madurai. In the 2019 general elections, Dindigul was won by DMK candidate P. Velusamy. The CPI-M had also made an unsuccessful pitch this time, for its other sitting seat, Coimbatore.
