Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Karthick, AIADMK Aspirant

The AIADMK’s candidate for the bypoll, V R Karthick Thondaiman (40), hails from a royal family, which has ruled the district in the past.




Karthick, the son of popular Congress leader Vijaya Raghunatha Thondaiman, who has represented the constituency thrice, shares two similarities with Muthuselvi, who was the AIADMK’s choice for the Sankarankoil bypoll.



Muthuselvi, like Karthick, was the municipal chairman of her constituency. Secondly, like Muthuselvi’s father, a former MLA, Karthick’s father won the constituency on a Congress ticket in 1967, 1977 and 1980. Karthick, also the party’s youth wing leader in Pudukottai, was born on January 1, 1972, the year AIADMK was launched.



After joining the AIADMK in 2005, he was nominated as the MGR youth wing president of Pudukottai in 2006. Karthick is a BSc (Physics) graduate from the prestigious St Joseph’s College in Tiruchy. A member of the Kallar community, he is married to Susheela and has two daughters, Samyuktha and Sangamithra.



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