Following the AIADMK party’s announcement of M V Omolingam, ex-MLA, as the candidate designate from Karaikal, the DMK, too, named A M H Nazeem, party’s sitting MLA, as its candidate from Karaikal, to contest the Puducherry Lok Sabha seat.
Nazeem (53) of Karaikal (South) is also the leader of DMK legislature party in the Assembly.
He has been the Health Minister during the DMK-TMC-CPI coalition government, led by R V Janakiraman, between 1996 and 2000, and the Leader of Opposition in the previous Assembly (2006-2011).
A graduate, Nazeem heads the Karaikal district unit of the DMK and is also a member of the Haj Committee.
Nazeem joined the DMK in 1983 and had been elected to the Legislative Assembly for six consecutive times since 1991.