The Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (AMMK) will face the urban local bodies’(ULB)elections on its own, according to T.T.V. Dhinakaran, the party’s general secretary.
After chairing a meeting at his party office in Chennai on Thursday, Mr Dhinakaran saidthe secretaries of his party’s district units and senior office bearers hadfinalisedcandidates for all the wards of the ULBs that would go to pollsand furnished the details to him.
Questioning the rationale behind the timing of the elections, the AMMK leader felt the polls could have been held in March and the State government could have explainedthe situation on account of the prevailing third wave of theCOVID-19 pandemic.
