CHENNAI: Thangkabalu caught on the wrong foot
By G Saravanan Published in The New Indian Express, Chennai, on March 31, 2011: Link: http://expressbuzz.com/polls2011/tn/thangkabalu-caught-on-the-wrong-foot/261205.html CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu Congress Committee President and party’s Mylapore candidate K V Thangkabalu could face more heat from the Election Commission (EC) in the coming days, as his allegations -- through a written complaint -- against the poll watchdog turned out to be false after due enquiry. While addressing the media immediately after the rejection of his wife and party’s official candidate Jayanthi Thangkabalu’s nomination papers on Monday, Thangkabalu said they had filed four papers and the applications that were shown to them by the returning officer during the scrutiny were not theirs and appeared to have been tampered with. Going a step ahead to prove his “innocence”, Thangkabalu also filed a written complaint with the Election Commission against the returning officer of the constituency with a plea to “find th...