Though polls to the State Assembly are one year away, the DMK’s mega public meeting in Madurai on Sunday will mark the party’s first campaign programme.
Party leader M. Karunanidhi used to be the star attraction of such meetings in the past. Age does not permit him to attend the meet this time. Instead, DMK treasurer M.K. Stalin will launch the campaign.
“Madurai is the place where you can get the pulse of the voters in 10 southern districts. It was from here Kannagi, the heroine of Silapathikaram, sought justice for the death of her husband and the public meeting would provide a platform for the people of Tamil Nadu to seek justice from the four-year misrule of the AIADMK,” said former minister Thangam Thennarasu.
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Mr. Stalin himself had said that the aim of the meeting was to bring together people of the State to question the failure of the AIADMK government on all fronts.
About five lakh partymen and supporters are expected to attend the meeting, the biggest one after the DMK’s platinum jubilee conference that was held in Madurai. It also assumes significance because it will be the DMK’s meeting without former Union Minister and the strongman from the south M.K. Alagiri in the chair.
It has been organised to convey the message that the DMK could not be weakened by the absence of a few individuals.
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The DMK has already suspended former Tirunelveli district V. Karuppasamy Pandian and Tiruchendur MLA Anitha Radkrishanan.
The meeting aims to bring together the people of the State to question the AIADMK government