Chennai
A day following Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami launched an early campaign for the subsequent year’s Assembly election in Tamil Nadu, DMK President MK Stalin on Sunday came up with a ‘Mission 200’ target for his celebration and kickstarted the ‘WeRejectADMK’ campaign.
A perennial political prince-in-waiting, Stalin, who sees the upcoming election as his only possibility to stake claim to the chief ministerial throne, produced it clear to his party’s workplace-bearers he is aiming for nothing at all much less than 200 seats for the DMK-led alliance in the 234-member House. The DMK has also been out of energy given that 2011, which tends to make the battle all the more dear to it.
Stalin has currently been interacting with celebration district functionaries through videoconferencing. Second line leaders like his actor-son and youth wing leader Udhayanidhi Stalin and half-sister Kanimozhi, who heads the celebration women’s wing, have hit the streets as component of ‘Vidiyalai Nokki, Stalinin Kural’ (Stalin’s Voice for a Dawn) programme.
However, the ‘WeRejectADMK’ that seeks to highlight the “lack of governance” by the Palaniswami Government is the primary political campaign of the celebration. Calling upon his celebration functionaries to make sure the defeat of each and every state minister in the election, Stalin mentioned 1,600 DMK functionaries would pay a visit to 16,000 villages and wards to conduct Gram Sabha meetings in which resolutions will be adopted against the AIADMK Government. The Gram Sabha meetings would be held from December 23, 2020 to January 10, 2021. The DMK, incidentally, had outshone the AIADMK in the rural regional body polls held final year.
The celebration hopes difficulties such as the AIADMK allegedly playing second fiddle to the BJP at the Centre, the failure to get exemption from NEET for Tamil Nadu and general distress in the economy would tilt the electoral scales in its favour.
This year Tamil Nadu is witnessing an uncommon trend in leaders of various parties launching their poll campaign months just before in advance. Tamil Nadu is set to go to polls through April-May 2021. The battle is most likely to be a multi-cornered a single with the AIADMK and the DMK facing newer players like film stars Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan.
On Monday Umesh Sinha, secretary basic, Election Commission along with a higher-level delegation comprising Sudeep Jain, Deputy Election Commissioner, Ashish Kundra, Deputy Election Commissioner, HRSrinivasa, Chief Electoral Officer, Bihar, Pankaj Srivatsava, Director and Malay Mallick, Secretary, Election Commission of India will be going to Chennai to assess the preparedness for the basic elections. The pay a visit to would final two days.