The AIADMK’s district secretaries met at the party headquarters in Chennai for about an hour on Tuesday to discuss preparations for the Lok Sabha election.
Party general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami, who chaired the meeting, advised his colleagues to ensure that AIADMK supporters were not left out of the electoral rolls. Mr. Palaniswami was also said to have asked them to ensure that the right persons were deployed at the polling booths.
The timing of the meeting aroused curiosity as BJP leader and Union Minister for Commerce Piyush Goyal, during his visit to the city on Monday, reiterated the BJP’s non-committal stance vis à vis the AIADMK, which had been saying that it would not have any truck with the national party, not only for the Lok Sabha election but also for the 2026 Assembly poll. But “it was a routine meeting”, a senior office-bearer of the AIADMK said.
