A fair number of candidates in Tamil Nadu have prefixes that refer to their constituencies. Dindigul Srinivasan, Pollachi Jayaraman, Panruti Ramachandran are only three examples.
What happens when a candidate changes his traditional constituency? When the AIADMK's Saidai Duraisamy shifted from Saidapet, where he has fought several elections, there was a debate on whether the prefix would be a handicap. Would it be a handicap in Kolathur, where he is contesting now?
Vijayakant, the leader of the DMDK, an ally of the AIADMK, thought the problem could be resolved with a simple name change. “Let's call him Kolathur Duraisamy instead,” he quipped.
