Chennai: The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) has launched its 'achievement rallies' across Tamil Nadu, ahead of the Assembly elections expected in April. Party wing Amma Peravai will carry out the awareness of the achievements made by the Jayalalithaa-led government since it came to power in 2011.
The rallies seek to secure “100 per cent victory” for the party by explaining its “development schemes and visionary plans”. The rallies were launched by AIADMK presidium chairman E Madusudanan and Chennai Mayor Saidai Duraisamy along with Lok Sabha Deputy Speaker M Thambidurai in Karur. Several ministers, mayors, office-bearers, MPs and MLAs across the state simultaneously participated in the launch. Party Supremo and Chief Minister Jayalalithaa had asked her party workers to reach out to all the voters and had announced the task would be carried out by the Amma Peravai. The party also launched dozens of street-corner and public meetings in districts including Kancheepuram and Vellore to conduct a recall of welfare schemes including freebies.
Party organ slams DMK
An article in AIADMK mouthpiece Dr Namadhu MGR assailed the DMK for treating the torrential rains and resultant floods as a “political opportunity.” Presiding over a protest demonstration, Karunandhi had alleged that the state’s “failure to open the Chembarambakkam reservoir on time had caused flooding (in Chennai) and demanded a judicial probe into the episode. “Karunanidhi staging lies is a habit that did not come to him now, also in 1985, he grabbed the Madurantakkam Lake issue and tried to (politically) harm Puratchi Thalaivar MGR, it is history that he failed in doing that,” the article said.
