SEVERAL men have nominated their female relatives as candidates for the October 13 local body polls in Tamil Nadu to counter the Election Commission’s recent directive to allot seats only to women in some places.
According to a report in Nakkeeran magazine, Tilakar, who has won several times from Thevanampettai village in Villupuram district had no female relatives. A bachelor, he hurriedly married a Dalit girl and filed her nomination on the same day.
Similarly Murugesan, an All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) councillor of Ramanathapuram panchayat (village), about 50km from Madurai city, is fielding his daughter-in-law. Another councillor in Dindigul district is fielding his secretary’s wife.
In Thanjavur, one of the oldest municipalities established in 1866, 17 out of 51 wards have been reserved for women. Three candidates are fielding their wives in previously male-dominated wards.
In Salem, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) leader Veerapandi Arumugam is fielding his daughter-in-law for the Veerapandi panchayat post.
Most of the women candidates are illiterate housewives who expect to win with the support of their husbands or male sponsors.
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