A crucial meeting of the ruling AIADMK’s office-bearers and members commenced at the party headquarters here on Wednesday morning.
The party’s legislators, parliamentarians, district secretaries and other functionaries are taking part. Chief Minister and party co-coordinator Edappadi K Palaniswami and Deputy Chief Minister and coordinator O. Panneerselvam are in attendance.
Radha Ravi rejoins AIADMK
Minutes before the meeting began, veteran film actor and former Saidapet MLA, Radha Ravi, rejoined the party in t he presence of the Chief Minister.
In March 2017, Mr. Ravi left the AIADMK to rejoin DMK, which he left in early 2000.
He was elected from the Saidapet Assembly constituency in a by-election in 2002 on an AIADMK ticket. But he was not re-nominated in the 2006 election.
Expected to last a few hours, the meeting is the first such event after the results of the Lok Sabha polls and Assembly by-polls, in which the party performed badly. Out of 22 Lok Sabha constituencies that it contested, the AIADMK bagged just one seat, while in the Assembly by-elections, it captured 9 out of 22 seats.
The event assumes importance in the light of a demand by sections of the party for a single leadership instead of the present arrangement of dual leadership.
Outside the party headquarters, a poster, welcoming Mr. Palaniswami and identifying him as the party general secretary, has been put up by a member of the Chennai district unit.