Chennai, June 30 -- The Karur Assembly constituency has been notified as vacant by the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly Secretariat following the resignation of former Transport Minister and disgruntled AIADMK Legsilator M.R.Vijayabaskar.
He submitted his resignation to Speaker JCD Prabhakar at his chambers at the State Secretariat yesterday. The Speaker said he has accepted the resignation as it was written in hand in accordance with Assembly rules, following the vacancy was notified in the Government gazette.
A formal communication would be sent to the Election Commission of India paving the way for holding bye-elections to Karur along with six other seats, taking the total vacancies to seven.
It may be noted that less than two months a...