Tamil Nadu Lok Sabha polls: Coimbatore prestige battle for BJP?

With just two days to go before election in Tamil Nadu, intense campaigning in the state is in its last leg.

All 39 constituencies are voting in single phase but all eyes are on Coimbatore constituency which is witnessing a fierce three-way battle.

Candidates in the fray include DMK leader Ganapathy P Rajkumar, AIADMK's Singai Ramachandran and BJP's poster boy of the south, Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai.

The CPI(M) is the incumbent party in the Coimbatore Lok Sabha seat. The sitting MP is PR Natarajan who is one of the only two CPM MPs from Tamil Nadu is in alliance with the DMK.

The road to Parliament is not going to be easy for candidates from the high stakes seat.

The results will also have a bearing on the future course of politics in the state as the BJP pushes its way to alter the largely bi-polar Dravidian politics in Tamil Nadu.