A journlist and popular television anchor A William Rabi Bernard is the AIADMK candidate for the July 22 byelections to fill up the lone vacant Rajya Sabha seat from Tamil Nadu.
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The vacancy was created when state public works minister K V Ramalingam resigned as Rajya Sabha member after his election to the state assembly.
Bernard's candidature was decided at a meeting of the newly-constituted meeting of party administrative committee held at chief minister Jayalalithaa's Poes Garden residence.
A well-known journalist and AIADMK loyalist, Bernard had worked with various TV channels before he joined Jaya TV for which he has anchored several programmes.
In fact,many senior party leaders were in the race for the Rajya Sabha seat, Bernard proved lucky. Bernard worked with a newspaper before turning a lecturer in a city college and later moved to the visual media.
He earlier worked as an anchor for Sun TV and his program 'Nerukku Ner' gained him popularity.
After resigning from Sun TV, Bernard went on to launch Nila TV, a Tamil channel. He later joined Jaya TV and also switched political loyalties. Party sources said Bernard is likely to file his nominations on July 8.
Bernard's candidature was decided at a meeting of the newly-constituted meeting of party administrative committee held at chief minister Jayalalithaa's Poes Garden residence.
A well-known journalist and AIADMK loyalist, Bernard had worked with various TV channels before he joined Jaya TV for which he has anchored several programmes.
In fact,many senior party leaders were in the race for the Rajya Sabha seat, Bernard proved lucky. Bernard worked with a newspaper before turning a lecturer in a city college and later moved to the visual media.
He earlier worked as an anchor for Sun TV and his program 'Nerukku Ner' gained him popularity.
After resigning from Sun TV, Bernard went on to launch Nila TV, a Tamil channel. He later joined Jaya TV and also switched political loyalties. Party sources said Bernard is likely to file his nominations on July 8.
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