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Chennai: Chief minister and AIADMK general secretary J Jayalalitha on Wednesday announced the names of four candidates for the Rajya Sabha election on June 11. With six RS seats from Tamil Nadu falling vacant and with a 134-member strength in the state assembly, AIADMK can nominate four members. AIADMK's strength in RS will increase to 13, while DMK will have four members. AIADMK lost all six seats in Kanyakumari district to Congress and DMK. This perhaps prompted Jayalalithaa to consider Vijayakumar's nomination to the Upper House.DMK, which has a strength of 89 members in the state assembly, has nominated its spokesman T K S Elangovan and headquarters secretary R S Bharthi to the RS..