Hyderabad, September 27: The Lok Satta Party will be fielding candidates in Tamil Nadu municipal elections scheduled for October 17 and 19, party spokesman Katari Srinivasa Rao announced here on Monday.
Its candidates will contest for the positions of corporators as also Mayors for which direct elections are taking place. It has set its eyes on contesting from cities like Chennai, Coimbatore and Erode. The party is fielding Mr. S. Suresh Kumar as its candidate in the October 13 by-election to the Assembly seat from Tiruchi West constituency.
Juvvigunta Venkateswarlu, party in-charge in Tamil Nadu and Narra Sridhar, Working Committee member of the Andhra Pradesh unit, are screening the prospective candidates.
Srinivasa Rao recalled that the Lok Satta Party polled thousands of votes although it contested only 36 seats in the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections in April 2011. The party will contest on the plank of providing good governance and ushering in new political culture.
——Agencies