Don’t miss the latest developments in business and finance.

image

Coimbatore

About Coimbatore

Facebook IconLinkedIN Icon

Coimbatore Parliamentary Constituency

In Tamil Nadu where Dravidian politics captures all the attention, Coimbatore is an exception as it is considered the hotbed of Hindutva politics in the southern state along with being called as a communist bastion. The city has a heavy presence of RSS and therefore, BJP decided to field its Hindutva firebrand leader and state chief K Annamalai from here as it feels that it has the best chance of winning this seat among all 39 seats of the state.
In 2019 Lok Sabha polls, BJP suffered a drubbing as it didn't win a single seat despite being in an alliance with the AIADMK, who is presently the state's main Opposition party. However, this time BJP is going into the polls with some lesser known parties of the state and with AIADMK struggling with its leadership issues post Jayalalitha's death, the Saffron party aims to take over the main Opposition's space and the result of the Coimbatore can prove as a watershed moment for it because the party has fielded Annamalai who is by far its most popular Tamil Nadu leader.
In the past, BJP has won the Coimbatore LS seat in 1998 and 1999 General Elections, however, for the past three polls, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and AIADMK are winning the seat. In 2019, CPI(M) candidate PR Natarajan defeated BJP's CP Radhakrishnan (who became an MP from here in 1998 and 1999) by a margin of over 170,000 votes.  
 
Notably, since 1952, Congress has bagged the seat on six occasions while CPI and CPI(M) have won four and three times respectively. Incidentally, the state's two biggest parties namely DMK and AIADMK have won only twice and once respectively.
 
AIADMK’s candidate fielded its IT wing secretary Singai Govindarasu Ramachandran and DMK is represented by Ganapathy P Rajkumar. Notably, CPI(M) hasn't fielded any candidate and is supporting its alliance partner DMK.
 
Interestingly, in 2021 state Assembly polls, AIADMK won five out of the total six seats that fall under the Coimbatore Parliamentary constituency. The sole remaining seat was won by the BJP.

Here are the latest news from Business Standard

Latest News

Bankers added that ongoing global market volatility has made corporates cautious, leading to a slowdown in overseas borrowings

Updated On: 17 Jan 2025 | 3:17 PM IST

There has been an average addition of 4 mn accounts monthly since 2024

Updated On: 15 Jan 2025 | 5:44 PM IST

Market LIVE: Benchmark Indian equity indices BSE Sensex and Nifty 50 were trading higher on Wednesday, tracking firm global cues

Updated On: 15 Jan 2025 | 5:44 PM IST

Nomura Nifty target: Nomura suggests investors stay highly "selective" and bet on stocks and/or sectors with relative valuation comfort tag

Updated On: 15 Jan 2025 | 12:34 PM IST

Malhotra showed keen interest in the RBI's currency intervention functions and expressed no opposition when his team explained the recent movements in the rupee and the need to allow it to depreciate

Updated On: 14 Jan 2025 | 8:14 PM IST

pak vs nz 1st odi icc champions trophy series 2025 scorecard 87002

Updated On: 14 Jan 2025 | 6:34 PM IST

pak vs nz 1st odi icc champions trophy series 2025 scorecard 87002

Updated On: 14 Jan 2025 | 6:34 PM IST

Steady growth in the number of companies paying a sitting fee of Rs 100,000 or more per board meet

Updated On: 14 Jan 2025 | 6:32 PM IST

India, who finished as runner-up in the 2020 edition of the tournament, are placed in Group A along with six-time winners and defending champions Australia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and New Zealand.

Updated On: 14 Jan 2025 | 6:32 PM IST

Economic Survey had projected a GDP growth of 6.5% to 7%. This was later revised to 6.5% by the finance ministry in November 2024

Updated On: 14 Jan 2025 | 4:33 PM IST

LLMs are advanced AI systems designed to understand and generate human language. They use deep learning techniques and are trained on massive amounts of text data

Updated On: 09 Jan 2025 | 11:26 AM IST

Sunni Central Waqf Board later formed the Indo-Islamic Cultural Foundation to build a new mosque on the land allotted by the state government in the Dhannipur area of the district

Updated On: 09 Jan 2025 | 11:25 AM IST

Fairchem Organics shares rallied 12 per cent to Rs 1,307 on the BSE in Thursday's intra-day trade, extending its past three day's upward movement, in an otherwise weak market

Updated On: 09 Jan 2025 | 11:25 AM IST

More than 80% of such traditional businesses blame dark stores of quick commerce companies: JP Morgan survey

Updated On: 09 Jan 2025 | 11:24 AM IST

The government issued draft rules for the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act on Friday for public consultation till February 18

Updated On: 09 Jan 2025 | 11:24 AM IST

The government issued draft rules for the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act on Friday for public consultation till February 18

Updated On: 09 Jan 2025 | 11:24 AM IST

The rupee has been hovering above ₹85 mark vis-a-vis the US dollar in the recent past

Updated On: 09 Jan 2025 | 11:24 AM IST

Markets Today LIVE: Benchmark Indian equity indices BSE Sensex and Nifty 50 were trading on a muted note on Monday, amid mixed global cues₹

Updated On: 06 Jan 2025 | 11:01 AM IST

Budget 2025

Updated On: 31 Dec 2024 | 5:00 PM IST

Stock market live on May 30, 2023: The broader markets outperformed benchmarks. The BSE MidCap and SmallCap indices rose up to 0.18 per cent versus nearly flat BSE Sensex index

Updated On: 30 Dec 2024 | 4:12 PM IST