Chennai, April 5 -- The All India Congress Committee (AICC) on Sunday named P Viswanthan as its candidate for the Melur seat in Madurai for the April 23 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections.
AICC General Secretary K C Venugopal announced the candidate for the Melur seat on the eve of the last date for filing of nominations.
With this, the National party has announced candidates for all the 28 seats allotted to it as per the seat sharing pact by the ruling DMK, heading the multi-party Secular Progressive Alliance (SPA).
The AICC, after much delay, had annouced the first list of candidates on April three evening, retaining 12 sitting MLAs and accommodating new faces, including new entrant GKM Tamilkumaran, who had quit the PMK just a week back an...