A Raja and Dayanidhi Maran are given DMK tickets, but not Alagiri, whose Madurai constituency has been reassigned to another DMK member. Raja and Maran will contest from the same constituencies they won last time.
The Sivaganga constituency of Finance Minister P Chidambaram has been allocated to a DMK candidate, indicating the party will have no truck with Congress this time.
Maran is being investigated by CBI for allegedly misusing his office as Telecom Minister to pressure the sale of Aircel to a Malaysian firm whose owner then made a large investment in Sun Networks, owned by Maran’s brother.
Raja replaced Maran as Telecom Minister and is accused of accepting large bribes to help ineligible firms get mobile network licenses at throwaway prices in 2008.