Ooty (Tamil Nadu) [India]: Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting and Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying, L Murugan is likely to contest from Nilgiri constituency in the 2024 general election.
Speaking to media persons in Ooty, Union State Minister L Murugan said, “The names of candidates will be announced before the election as per the instruction from our party president K Annamalai. We had opened an office in Ooty to reach out to the people in this Nilgiri constituency to take up the Modi government schemes to the people.”
Murugan has already started foundation work in the Nilgiris as hardly a year is left before the elections.
Meanwhile, Union Minister L Murugan on Sunday termed the launching of Vande Bharat Trains on the Tirunelveli to Chennai and the Vijayawada to Chennai routes as a historic occasion, especially for Southern Tamil Nadu.
“It is a historic occasion because today the Vande Bharat Train was launched from Tirunelveli to Chennai and Vijayawada to Chennai… People may get facilities, and they can reach Chennai fast… It is a safe, high-speed, and hygienic train… The speciality of these trains is that they are manufactured in India…I thank our Prime Minister and Railway Minister for giving this train to Southern Tamil Nadu,” Murugan told media.
Meanwhile, Murugan slammed the sitting Nilgiri constituency MP A Raja after ED took possession of 15 immovable “benami” properties, worth about Rs 55 crore, alleged to be belonging to DMK MP A Raja as part of a money laundering probe.
In a statement, the ED said it has “taken possession of 15 immovable properties owned by A Raja in the name of his benami company Kovai Shelters Promoters India Pvt Ltd, under the PMLA, in the matter of a disproportionate assets case of A Raja, former Union cabinet minister of environment and forest, subsequent to confirmation of the provisional attachment order by the Hon’ble Adjudicating Authority.”
