After fielding for a three time the former DMK MLA as its candidate in Vedaranyam, BJP is pinning its hopes on this coastal constituency, where the 'salt satyagraha' was held during the freedom struggle, to make entry in Tamil Nadu Assembly in the 16 May elections.


Currently BJP has fielded S K Vedarathinam, a popular businessman of this town, who joined the party in 2015 after resigning from DMK and is confident he would help the lotus bloom and Vedaranyam a major salt producing centre in Nagapattinam District, has its place in the country's freedom struggle as it was here that C Rajagopalachari in 1930 staged the 'salt satyagraha'.


Vedarathinam, who scored a hat-trick of wins from the constituency from 1996 as a DMK nominee, lost to AIADMK's N V Kamaraj in the 2011 polls and he was a strongman of DMK and has got elected to the Assembly in 1996, 2001 and 2006 from Vedaranyam.BJP had chosen Vedaranyam as among the places for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's electioneering in the state to give a strong push for the party's goal of making a mark in the polls.

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