AIADMK and DMK racing against each other intensifying election works for the upcoming assembly polls, the ambitious BJP, which is more concentrated to enter the TN legislative Assembly had kick-started conducting region wise and district wise conference and meetings for the upcoming elections. The back to back meetings is more common in western Tamil Nadu where the party is confident to open the electoral debut in alliance with the AIADMK.
On Tuesday, Tamil Nadu state president L Murugan, BJP Mahila Morcha president Vanathi Srinivasan took part in the party election meeting at Salem where the party invited the district and state level functionaries to sketch the poll strategies. According to BJP insiders, the national party will contest maximum seats from Kongu region covering Salem, Coimbatore, Tirupur. The party will also have a direct fight in a few constituencies where the incumbent MLAs are from Congress in Kanniyakumari and Tirunelveli districts. The saffron party had also appointed organisers and election in charges for all the 234 Assembly constituencies and may contest one or two seats from Chennai.
The party had also appointed senior office-bearers, including Nainar Nagendran, Sasikala Pushpa, H Raja, KT Raghavan and Khushbu Sundar as election in-charges and convenors are few among them. “This time the BJP had also taken up the booth level works and voters enumeration works that are crucial for winning the Assembly seats,” a BJP district secretary who attended the meeting in Salem told a news agency.
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