AIADMK announces 4 candidates for RS elections

N Chinnadurai, L Sasikala Pushpa, S Muthukaruppan and Vijila Satyanant have been named

AIADMK today announced four candidates for next month's Rajya Sabha elections and also extended support to the candidate which would be proposed by the CPI(M).

In a statement, AIADMK supremo and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalitha announced the names of N Chinnadurai, L Sasikala Pushpa, S Muthukaruppan and Vijila Satyanant.

The AIADMK chief also said her party would extend support to the nominee proposed by the CPI(M), heeding a request by the Left party.

A CPI(M) delegation led by party state secretary G Ramakrishan had recently met Jayalalithaa at her camp office at Kodanad and sought AIADMK's support for its candidate, even as the party MP P K Rangarajan's term ends by April 2 2014.

The CPI(M) is yet to announce its candidate.

Last year, during the biennial elections, AIADMK had supported the candidature of senior CPI leader D Raja.

The terms of five other Rajya Sabha MPs -- A A Jinnah and Vasanthi Stanely (both DMK), G K Vasan and Jayanthi Natarajan (both Congress) and AIADMK's N Balaganga also send on the same day.

DMK has already announced Tiruchi N Siva as its candidate.

The Election Commission has announced that polling for the biennial elections will be held on February 7, if necessary.