CHENNAI: Leading the party in celebrating the AIADMK’s 52nd founding day, former chief minister and party general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami on Tuesday asserted that his party would lead a grand alliance for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and win all 40 seats, including the lone Puducherry seat. “People are disillusioned with the DMK and the AIADMK will return to office again in 2026,” Palaniswami told the functionaries after hoisting the AIADMK flag at the party headquarters in Chennai.
At his first meeting with senior leaders and functionaries appointed to oversee the booth committees, Ilaignar, Ilampengal pasarai (young men and women’s wing) and women’s wing in booths in 82 party district units, Palaniswami had made it clear that the AIADMK would not have an alliance with the BJP not just for the 2024 LS polls but for the 2026 assembly election as well.