The 25 constituencies allocated for Congress are Ponneri, Sriperumbadur, Sholingur, Oothangarai, Omalur, Udhagai, Coimbatore South, Karaikudi, Melur, Sivakasi, Srivaikundam, Kulachal, Vilavangodu, Kiliyur, Erode East, Tenkasi, Aranthangi, Virudhachalam, Nanguneri, Kallakurichi, Sriviliputhur (Theni), Udumalaipettai, Tiruvadanai, Mayiladadurai and Velachery.
Congress will also contest from Kanyakumari in the Lok Sabha by-election.
Congress will be contesting from Sriperumbadur, the place where Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assasinated and where a memorial was erected in his memory.
Congress will also contest from Kanyakumari in the Lok Sabha by-election.
DMK and Congress were earlier at loggerheads as DMK was not willing to give more than 20 seats. The Congress party had alleged they felt ‘disrespected.’
Meanwhile a section of DMK cadre staged a protest in Aranthangi in Pudukottai district on Wednesday objecting to the allotment of the Aranthangi Assembly constituency to the…