Well, there’s a lot in a name Updated: Updated: Share Article An auto campaign of Independent candidate ‘Kalaignar’ Jayalalitha in Thoothukudi . When the independent candidate began to address voters in a loud voice during her election campaign, onlookers became curious on reading her name, Kalaignar A. Jayalalithaa, printed across the digital banner on an autorickshaw accompanying her. Yes, you read it right. She does bear the name of two sworn rivals — the two late supremos of the Dravidian parties, Jayalalithaa and Karunanidhi. While most of the independent candidates, after filing the nomination, mysteriously vanished from the electioneering scene, ‘Kalaignar’ Jayalalithaa has visited almost all parts of the Thoothukudi Assembly segment to seek votes.