Kamal Haasan set for Rajya Sabha entry as DMK allots seat to MNM, names candidates on three different seats

The #Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) on Wednesday introduced its candidates for the upcoming #Rajya Sabha elections scheduled for June 19, 2025. Tamil Nadu’s ruling get together named candidates on three out of six seats from the state for the biennial #Rajya Sabha polls. The DMK has allotted one Upper House seat to an ally, actor-politician #Kamal Haasan-led #Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM)

DMK candidates are:

The DMK has re-nominated its sitting #Rajya Sabha MP and senior advocate P Wilson for an additional time period. Alongside him, the get together has named SR Sivalingam, a pacesetter from Salem, and Ruqayya Malik, popularly often known as Kavignar Salma, a poet, author, and lively get together functionary, as its different two candidates for the Upper House.

Chief Minister M Okay Stalin, additionally the president of the ruling DMK, in a celebration launch right here stated that the allocation of 1 seat to Haasan’s get together is consistent with an electoral pact with MNM forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

#Kamal Haasan set for #Rajya Sabha entry?

Actor-turned-politician #Kamal Haasan is about to make his debut within the #Rajya Sabha, with the ruling DMK in Tamil Nadu extending its help. The MNM has already handed a decision endorsing his nomination to the Upper House of Parliament.

MNM chief Murali Appas stated, “We have passed a resolution to elect #Kamal Haasan as a #Rajya Sabha member from #Makkal Needhi Maiam party.”

Haasan, who launched his political journey in 2018, has persistently advocated for various and clear governance because the core of his political imaginative and prescient.

The DMK-led alliance, with a majority energy of 159 MLAs within the 234-member Tamil Nadu Assembly, is poised to comfortably safe 4 #Rajya Sabha seats within the upcoming elections.

Meanwhile, the primary opposition AIADMK, led by Edappadi Okay Palaniswami, is prone to clinch two seats with the backing of its alliance companions, the BJP and the O Panneerselvam faction, bringing its efficient help base to 62 MLAs.

Biennial #Rajya Sabha elections for Tamil Nadu

The election to fill the six vacant #Rajya Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu shall be held on June 19, with the counting of votes additionally going down on the identical day.

In Tamil Nadu, six members — Anbumani Ramadoss (PMK), N. Chandrasekharan (AIADMK), M. Shanmugam and P. Wilson (DMK), and Vaiko (MDMK) — will retire on July 24, 2025.

The notification for the biennial election shall be issued on June 2, with the final date for nominations set for June 9. Scrutiny of nominations will happen by June 10, and candidates can withdraw their names by June 12. 

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