Athoor constituency needs state-of-the-art textile park

Athoor Assembly constituency in Dindigul district has remained a DMK bastion for about two decades now. Senior DMK leader I. Periyasamy has won from the Athoor Assembly constituency a total of six times, of which four of them have been consecutively from the 2006 Assembly election to the 2021 Assembly election.

In the 2026 Assembly election, Mr. Periyasamy, the incumbent MLA, will battle it out against the AIADMK’s A. Viswanathan. Also in the fray are A. Simon Justin of the Naam Tamilar Katchi and N. Kalaiselvi of the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam.

In the 2021 Assembly elections, Mr. Periyasamy had secured 72.60 % of the votes polled in the Athoor Assembly constituency. He secured a total of 1,65,809 votes and defeated the PMK’s M. Thilagabama who secured the second highest votes, a total of 30,238 votes, which was 13.24 % of the votes polled in Athoor Assembly constituency.