Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC) president K. Selvaperunthagai on Tuesday appealed to the party’s former president Rahul Gandhi to contest in the upcoming Lok Sabha election from Sriperumbudur, a place where his father and former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in 1991.
During an interaction with journalists, he said that opinion polls published so far had shown that the people of Tamil Nadu wanted Mr. Rahul Gandhi as the next Prime Minister. “Across India and Tamil Nadu, Congressmen want Mr. Gandhi to contest in their constituency and State. In Tamil Nadu, district congress presidents have urged our leader to contest from here. I, too, would like to invite him to contest from Sriperumbudur,” he said.
The constituency is currently represented by DMK treasurer T.R. Baalu. In a statement, Mr. Selvaperunthagai also criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his speech on Monday, accusing the ruling DMK of indulging in corruption and proliferation of drugs.
