Chennai: AIADMK supremos, Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami and Deputy CM O Panneerselvam, who on Thursday interviewed party aspirants who submitted applications seeking party ticket for contesting in the elections, are chairing the party’s district secretaries meet today.
Sources said selection of candidates will be the main agenda of the meeting and EPS and OPS will meet district secretaries individually.
On Thursdy, interviews from across the State was completed in a single day. Over 8,200 party office bearers submitted applications for themselves as well as in the name of others too
Apart from Palaniswami and Panneerselvam, the interview committee included deputy secretaries K P Munusamy and R Vaithilingam; the medical wing secretary P Venugopal; literary wing secretary B Valarmathi and MGR Mandram secretary Tamilmagan Hussain.
Addressing the aspirants, Palaniswami ured them to extend cooperation to the selected candidates. He claimed that even though the party was in power for 10 years, its good governance saw to it that no adverse feeling got reflected among people. “If the party won the election, no force can defeat us,” he added.