AIADMK fields veteran Thambi Durai again, allots one RS seat to PMK

The AIADMK on Wednesday (March 4, 2026) announced the renomination of its senior chief, M. Thambi Durai, for the lone Rajya Sabha seat that it would contest.

This was announced by the occasion identical previous secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami in a commence.

In one more commence, he said one more seat of the Upper Dwelling had been distributed to the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK).

Mr. Thambi Durai held the publish of Lok Sabha Deputy Speaker twice and that of Union Minister for Regulation, Justice, Company Affairs and Surface Transport within the National Democratic Alliance regime headed by Atal Bihari Vajpayee within the midst of March 1998-April 1999. He first entered Parliament in 1984 when he was elected from the Dharmapuri Lok Sabha constituency, defeating Parvati Krishnan, a prominent Communist chief. He served the Lok Sabha for five terms and entered the Rajya Sabha in April 2020. One day of 2001-02, he was Education Minister within the AIADMK Authorities within the Lisp and remained a member of the Assembly till 2009.