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Witnesses told police that Selvaraj was thrown off when the flagpole came into contact with the cable.The other AIADMK workers screamed for help.Selvaraj was rushed to a nearby hospital where doctors declared him dead on arrival.The Selaiyur police registered a case. CHENNAI: An AIADMK worker who was erecting a flagpole was electrocuted when it came into contact with an overhead power cable at Mappedu near Selaiyur on the outskirts of Chennai on Monday.Police identified the deceased as Selvaraj, 25.Selvaraj and other party workers were reinstalling the flagpole after painting it on the occasion of party founder and former Tamil Nadu chief minister M G Ramachandran's birth centenary..