Coimbatore Lok Sabha constituency: BJP's K Annamalai to face DMK's Ganapathy Rajkumar, AIADMK's Singai Ramachandran; voting on April 19
Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai facing DMK leader Ganapathy P Rajkumar and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam AIADMK's Singai Ramachandran.
Jharkhand Governor CP Radhakrishnan, who was the BJP candidate from Coimbatore in the past two Lok Sabha elections of 2019 and 2014, had suffered back-to-back defeats.
CPI (M) MP PR Natarajan defeated CP Radhakrishnan with a victory margin of 1,79,143 votes. The vote share of CP Radhakrishnan was 31.3 per cent. PR Natarajan got a 45.7 per cent vote share of the total polled votes.
In 2014, CP Radhakrishnan lost the election to AIADMK's P Nagarajan with a margin of 42,016 votes.
Earlier, Tamil Nadu BJP chief K Annamalai released the manifesto for the Coimbatore constituency for the Lok Sabha elections on Friday.
The promises include the establishment of the Indian Institute of Management, the offices of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), and the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in Coimbatore city.
Among other poll promises, the BJP also announced to introduction of round-the-clock mobile food vans named after the legendary leader and former Chief Minister, K Kamaraj.
In a post on X, Annamalai said, «Coimbatore Parliamentary Constituency, we have made 100 promises to benefit the people from all walks of life based on the objective of making the Coimbatore Parliamentary Constituency a prominent place on the world map in the next five years. My dream is our Coimbatore!»
Meanwhile, DMK candidate Ganapathy P Rajkumar exuded confidence and said that the BJP has
