The Communist Party of India (Marxist) will support the DMK candidate N. Marudu Ganesh in R.K. Nagar byelection. A decision in this regard was taken at the party’s State committee meeting held in Coimbatore on Thursday.
Announcing this, the party’s State secretary, G. Ramakrishnan, told reporters that the committee had decided to support the DMK candidate “from outside” to defeat the AIADMK and the BJP, which were two sides of a coin. However, the party it will not have any electoral alliance with the DMK.
Mr. Ramakrishnan questioned why the Election Commission had announced the schedule for the bypoll, a day after allotting the ‘Two Leaves’ symbol to the ruling party. He pointed out that the EC had failed to take even minimal action against those in the AIADMK who were involved in distribution of money to voters in R.K. Nagar earlier this year.
The meeting was presided over by its Central committee member A. Soundararajan.
