CHENNAI: The nine Lok Sabha seats that fall under the purview of the nine Assembly districts that the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC) expects contesting in the general elections of 2024 will each have a coordinator appointed by the TNCC.
According to sources in the state Congress, a high-level meeting of the party resolved to designate coordinators in every Assembly district that is included in the parliamentary districts that the party ran in as a member of the Secular Progressive Alliance (SPA) led by the DMK.
It should be noted that the Congress joined the coalition and won eight of the nine Lok Sabha seats it ran for. The sole seat the party lost was in Theni, where P. Raveendranathan, the son of former Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam (OPS), defeated E.V.K.S. Elangovan, a former Union Minister and prominent Congress leader.
The Congress ran for office in Thiruvallur, Krishnagiri, Arani, Karur, Tiruchirapalli, Sivaganga, Virudhunagar, Kanniyakumari, and Theni in the 2019 general elections.
A senior member of the Congress' leadership has stated that the party will choose coordinators in each of the Assembly districts that are associated with these Lok Sabha seats.
The coordinator will also appoint coordinators at the booth level, who will be in charge of adding and removing voters from the electoral list—basic election operations.
The state Congress expects each coordinator to thoroughly evaluate each booth, including the benefits and drawbacks of the party and the people's representatives present in each booth.
As per statements by sources within the Congress, K.S. Alagiri, the state party president who is most likely to serve through the general elections of 2024, is desperate for the party to hold onto every seat it has gained as well as to wrest the Theni seat. Additionally, the Congress intends to ask the DMK for more seats, but the possibilities of further seats appear remote.
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