Chennai: Stating that the need for a party like DMK is ‘more than ever’ in today’s political scenario, Chief Minister M K Stalin has declared that the party’s journey in pursuit of social justice will cover the whole of India and termed as the first step his initiative to form the All India Federation for Social Justice towards achieving the goal.
In a letter to DMK cadre, Stalin said the elected representatives of urban local bodies will assume charge on 2 March, and the indirect election for chiefs and deputy chiefs of corporations, municipalities and town panchayats will be held on 4 March.
He urged elected representatives to ensure that those identified by the party and its allies are chosen unanimously on 4 March.
‘It is a birthday (1 March) gift I expect from you,’ he said in a letter to cadres. He termed the landslide victory of the DMK led secular alliance in the urban local polls as a ‘birthday gift’ from the people of Tamilnadu and lauded the winners.
Stalin said the ‘disciplined and wholehearted support’ from the elected representatives for victory in the indirect polls (for mayors, deputy mayors and heads of municipalities and town panchayats) was the gift he expected from party workers.
He further urged the cadre not to conduct big events to celebrate his birthday, which falls on 1 March, but to only organise events to provide assistance and books to the general public, enrol new members into the party, and highlight the DMK-led Dravidian model government to the masses.