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States » SouthPosted at: Oct 7 2020 11:02AM


AIADMK forms steering committee to guide the party in 2021 Assembly polls

Chennai, Oct 7 (UNI) Fulfilling the key demand of Deputy
Chief Minister and Party Coordinator O Panneerselvam's
camp, the ruling AIADMK on Wednesday announced the
formation of a 11-member steering committee to guide the
party in the Assembly polls to be held in April-May 2021.
After marathon discussions on the composition of the
committee, that started yesterday morning and spilled
over past midnight and stretched till 0300 hrs early this
morning, Chief Minister and Joint Coordinator Edappadi
K Palaniswami announced the members of the committee
after which he was formally announced as the AIADMK's
CM candidate for the Assembly polls by Mr Panneerselvam.
The steering committee members were Ministers Dindigul
C Sreenivasan, P Thangamani, S P Velumani, D Jayakumar,
C Ve Shanmugam and R Kamaraj from the Palaniswami side
and former MLA J C D Prabhakaran, P H Manoj Pandian,
P Mohan, R Gopalakrishnan and C Manickam representing
Mr Panneerselvam's side.
The formation of the steering committee was the OPS's
long-pending demand for the merger of factions after
the death of former chief minister J Jayalalithaa and it
remained the bone of contention between the two camps.
As per the agreement worked out between the two camps,
the steering committee contained six members from the
Chief Minister's side and five from Mr Panneerselvam's
side, on the lines of what was agreed upon at the time
of the merger of the two factions in 2017.
When the issue was raised by Mr Panneerselvam at the
recent high-level committee and at the last week's
executive committee meetings, Mr Palaniswami said it
was not feasible now.
However, Mr Panneerselvam persisted with the issue
and it was finally agreed by Mr Palaniswami after hectic
and multiple parleys, Ministers and senior leaders had
with both of them separately.
The main objective of this committee was to guide the
party and on how to face the elections in unitedly, sources
close to AIADMK told UNI.
Stressing on the need for unity at this crucial juncture,
the sources said the main aim was to face the Assembly
polls without any hitch or differences in the party.
A big victory for AIADMK in the Assembly polls would be
the icing on the cake and the need to staying united was
paramount especially in the context of celebrations of
the Golden Jubilee of party's Founding day in October
2022.
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