Chennai: Ahead of Home Minister Amit Shah’s visit and V K Sasikala’s release, Tamilnadu’s ruling AIADMK has convened a meeting of its zonal in-charges, Ministers and district secretaries today to fine-tune the party’s strategy for the Assembly elections due in the first half of 2021.
According to sources, the meeting might also adopt a resolution authorising coordinator and Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam and joint coordinator and CM Edappadi K Palaniswami to decide on the alliance for the crucial elections.
Sasikala is serving her four-year jail term in the Rs 66 crore Disproportionate Assets case. According to sources, her legal team headed by advocate Raja Senthoor Pandian has been persuading the jail authorities and the Karnataka Prisons Department to consider her non-availed leaves and grant her an ordinary remission.
Meanwhile, the visit of Union Home Minister Amit Shah to Chennai on 21 November has evoked much expectations among political parties in the State.
In such a scenario, Panneerselvam and Palaniswami have convened the meeting of newly-appointed zonal in-charges of the AIADMK, district secretaries and Ministers to discuss strategies for Assembly elections.