Third phase of Stalin’s virtual meetings from December 12
The DMK on Thursday announced the third phase of ‘Tamizhagam Meetpom’ (Rescue Tamil Nadu) meetings to be addressed by its party president MK Stalin for next year’s Assembly elections.
By : migrator
Update: 2020-12-10 22:56 GMT
Chennai
An announcement made by the party headquarters said that Stalin would begin the third leg of his special election meetings covering 11 districts through video calls from Ramanathapuram on December 12. The DMK chief would interact with party workers of Dindigul, Cuddalore, Tiruvallur, Sivaganga, Thanjavur, Nagapattinam and Tiruvarur from December 14 to 28. He will wind up the virtual election meetings at Ariyalur/Perambalur on December 31.
The DMK chief has already interacted with party workers in over a dozen districts, including Thoothukudi, Erode, Krishnagiri and Madurai during the previous two phases of the Rescue Tamil Nadu meetings, which are intended to oil the party machinery for the ensuing Assembly polls. Stalin is expected to hit the campaign trail and meet people directly from early January after the special video call meetings are over.
The DMK high command has already deputed 20 star speakers, including Parliamentarians like Thoothukudi MP Kanimozhi and South Chennai MP Thamizhachi Thangapandian to meet the people across the state. Intended to cover 15,000 kms in 75 days, the meeting named “Vidiyalai noki Stalinin Kural” (Stalin’s voice for the dawn” was launched at former DMK president M Karunanidhi’s native Tiruvarur by DMK youth wing secretary Udhayanidhi Stalin last month.
Human Rights Day message
Meanwhile, in a loaded Human Rights Day message, Stalin posted on his official Facebook page, “From people’s rights to state’s rights, everything is being snatched away in broad daylight.” Wondering “when we would deserve to really celebrate human rights day,” the DMK chief said, “Let the fight for rights continue till humans get human rights.”
Police, political circles abuzz with ‘fake’ DMK manifesto
Political parties have started receiving ‘inputs’ for their manifestos from strange quarters even months ahead of finalising alliances for the 2021 Assembly polls. On Thursday, an alleged ‘fake’ manifesto claiming to be the poll promise of DMK president MK Stalin created buzz among the police and political circles alike.
The fake manifesto resembling the past poll manifesto of the DMK had a long “wish list” of the police personnel, including eight-hour work per day and formation of police unions. Though it was conspicuous from its appearance that it was a ‘manufactured’ one, curious police personnel in the city were intrigued by the ‘literature’ circulated virally on WhatsApp since Thursday morning.
A few DMK functionaries admitted to receiving calls from a few cops who were curious to cross check its genuineness. A DMK functionary unwilling to be quoted said the one-page ‘document’ (dated December 8, 2020) was a bogus one as manifestos do not have dates. “Probably, they are sending inputs to the high command in anticipation of an imminent regime change,” he added.
When contacted, DMK organising secretary RS Bharathi dismissed it as a ‘fake’ document circulated by vested interests to divert public attention and said the manifesto panel was still on tour.
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