Chennai: The first meeting of the DMK’s manifesto committee held today. It was chaired by party president M K Stalin.
Taking a lead over other parties, the principal Opposition DMK on Sunday constituted an eight-member committee to prepare the Party’s manifesto for the Tamilnadu Assembly elections due in April-May next year.
DMK general secretary Duraimurugan, in a statement here, said the committee members are : Party Treasurer and DMK Parliamentary Party leader T R Baalu, DMK Lok Sabha MPs A Raja (deputy general secretary) and Kanimozhi, who is also the DMK Deputy Leader in Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha member and propoganda secretary Trichy N Siva, deputy general secretaries Subbulakshmi Jagadeesan and Anthiyur Selvaraj, Member of Parliament T K S Elangovan and Prof A Ramasamy.
The nine party DMK-led Secular Progressive Alliance (SPA),which swept the 2019 Lok
Sabha polls, winning 38 of the 39 seats in the state, would be facing the Assembly polls with its president M K Stalin as the Chief Ministerial candidate.