The AIADMK has formed the panels ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi visit to Madurai on January 27 where he will launch his party’s election campaign in Tamil Nadu after laying the foundation stone for AIIMS.
Amid buzz over an impending electoral alliance with the BJP, the ruling AIADMK on Wednesday constituted panels to hold seat-sharing talks with potential allies, drafting election manifesto and campaign committee for the ensuing Lok Sabha polls.
The AIADMK has formed the panels ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi visit to Madurai on January 27 where he will launch his party’s election campaign in Tamil Nadu after laying the foundation stone for AIIMS.
The five-member committee comprises of AIADMK’s two deputy coordinators – KP Munusamy and R Vaithilingam, and state ministers SP Velumani and P Thangamani and will hold talks with potential partners for seat sharing said a statement issued by AIADMK coordinator O Panneerselvam and joint coordinator Edappadi K Palaniswami.
The committee was formed a day after senior AIADMK leader and Minister D Jayakumar announced his party’s doors were open for an alliance but the decision on it would be taken by the party’s appropriate forum. "We have not closed our doors for the alliance. The doors are very much open. But who is to be included, who is not required, these decisions cannot be made by an individual," Jayakumar said.
With the DMK forming a formidable alliance comprising of Congress, Left parties, Viduthalai Chiruthaligal Katchi, IUML and Manithaneya Makkal Katchi, the AIADMK sources said it would float a major alliance to counter it. BJP, Ramdoss’s PMK and actor Vijayakant’s DMDK are likely to join the AIADMK alliance, sources said, adding that informal talks are being held to decide on the seat sharing arrangement.
Deputy Lok Sabha Speaker and party’s secretary M Thambidurai has emerged as the lone dissenting voice in the ruling party in Tamil Nadu against the aligning with the BJP for the Parliamentary polls. After the RSS ideologue S Gurumurthy last week suggested that BJP should tie up with the AIADMK to create its foothold in the state, Thambidurai retorted that his party would not allow the BJP to piggyback on its shoulders to establish itself in the state. BJP Tamil Nadu president Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan said that Thambidurai’s view was not his party’s view.
BJP national general secretary P Muralidhar Rao who inspected the arrangements at Madurai for Modi public rally on January 27 said that the talks on alliance with parties was going on and would be declared at the appropriate time. “Only after finalising the alliance, we would make it public,” he said when asked about possible allies in Tamil Nadu.
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