The state of Tamil Nadu has been hosting the uncertain and aberrant developments over conducting the local body elections where the top political parties have been accusing each other and staging a legal battle in the Supreme court that had certainly delayed the elections for the past three years. Recently, the State Election Commission had brought the long wait to an end after issuing electoral notifications for the rural local bodies in 27 districts that will be conducted in two phases - December 27th and 30th, 2019.

While the state ruling and opposition parties have been boxing with the petitions in the Supreme court, a panchayat in Cuddalore district had webbed itself into the controversies after allegedly auctioning the seats for the forthcoming rural body elections to finalize the candidates and support them based on the money they would be donating to the panchayat. On Monday, the Nadukuppam panchayat has decided that the ADMK party man and former president Sakthivel would be assuming the post of Panchayat president after he had donated Rs 50 lakh for the betterment of the people and the welfare measures in the Panchayat.

The reported violation of electoral rules and regulations came to the spotlight through the video in which a village man was reading the resolution passed the village leaders to the people assembled. In that video, he was stating that ADMK's Sakthivel would be elected as the Panchayat President unanimously while DMDK's party man would be the vice president of the Panchayat. The reports say that these two party men had donated to renovate the temple at the village.

After the issue had come to the revelation, district collector Anbuselvam has directed an inquiry into the alleged violation whereas the ADMK party had stayed off from the allegation. The party's spokesperson had said that the party had no direct involvement in the auction and claimed the allegation was baseless. Speaking about the matter, alleged 43-year-old Sakthivel stated that the video was a conspiracy and the opposition party DMK had attempted to defame and degrade him.

The Nadukuppam Panchayat has eight wards and about 1,900 eligible voters. The reports have revealed that the village elders have asked the two-party men to deposit the money before December 15th and the elders guaranteed them that no one from the village will file the nominations for the rural local body elections if they had timely deposited the money.