Party polls may galvanise AIADMK cadre

The election process will begin on December 11 and end on April 25

November 28, 2014 01:47 am | Updated May 07, 2016 06:18 am IST - CHENNAI:

NEW DELHI, 10/06/2013: Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu,J. Jayalalithaa coming after a meeting with CPI leader A.B. Bardhan at Tamil Nadu House in New Delhi on June 10, 2013. Photo: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar.

NEW DELHI, 10/06/2013: Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu,J. Jayalalithaa coming after a meeting with CPI leader A.B. Bardhan at Tamil Nadu House in New Delhi on June 10, 2013. Photo: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar.

AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa on Thursday announced a 14-phase organisational polls that would begin on December 11 and end on April 25, 2015. The exercise is likely to galvanise the organisation.

The polls would not have come at a more appropriate time for the AIADMK, though it is mandatory for a party to hold organisational polls once in five years.

The party is going though one of its worst political crises after the conviction of Ms. Jayalalithaa in the disproportionate assets case and her disqualification as a member of the Assembly. Ever since the judgment was delivered by a special court, the activities of the partymen and leaders across the State have mostly been confined to organising protests against her conviction and performing pujas for her acquittal.

“For the next five months, their energies will be channelised towards holding the polls. The election process and the subsequent election of new office-bearers at all levels will certainly give the party the much-needed fillip,” said a party MP.

The AIADMK membership had crossed the one-crore mark, and Ms. Jayalalithaa was elected general secretary for the seventh time on August 29 this year.

In a statement here, she said the first five phases of the elections would cover basic party units, village panchayats, wards in towns, town panchayats and corporations. In the next five phases, officer-bearers would be elected for towns, town panchayts, panchayat unions and corporations. It will be followed by two phases to elect district office-bearers and general council members. In the next two phases, elections would be held for the party units outside Tamil Nadu.

The AIADMK has 50 district units, and the elections for the first 25 districts will be held between April 4 and 6, 2015. The rest will be covered between April 11 and 13. The final phase will be held on April 25.

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