The Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) is going for a total revamp of its organisation following its electoral debacle and the process has already started in Cuddalore district.
“As a first step, all the local units and party units at the panchayat union have been dissolved. We have constituted a three-member committee to elicit opinion from partymen. We will complete the process in three months,” said Anbumani Ramadoss, former Union Minister and PMK’s youth wing leader. The outcome of the elections has not brought in any change in the decision of the PMK to go it alone in future.
“We will go it alone in the forthcoming local body polls. In the five years we will streamline and strengthen the party organisation,” he said.
The PMK has divided each district into nine panchayat unions for administrative purpose.
The committee is holding talks with party candidates in Cuddalore district to find out those who had worked against them in the Assembly elections.
Dr. Anbumani said the purpose of the exercise was to accommodate more youngsters in the party organisation as they had stood solidly behind the party during the elections. The party has taken stringent action against district secretaries who were found to work against the party candidates. “We have removed them from the ordinary membership of the party,” he said.
Asked whether he expected such a major defeat in the election, Dr. Anbumani said the party was expected to poll 12 to 15 per cent in the election and bag between 27 to 36 seats.
“Even in the worst case scenario we should have polled 10 per cent vote. But it did not happen. It is a real disappointment,” said Dr. Anbumani.
‘Purpose of the exercise is to accommodate more youngsters
in the party’
