DMK to organise meets in each assembly constituency

Each party district unit has been instructed to organise a dozen meetings, two public meetings and ten street corner meetings in all Assembly constituencies before February end.

A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting chaired by party chief M. Karunanidhii to discuss the Chembarambakkam water release fiasco at Anna Arivalayam early this week.

“We have been asked to finalise the venue based on the party's strengths and weaknesses and make the arrangements. The high command will select the speakers and send us the list,” a party district secretary told Deccan Chronicle.

Unlike in the past, district secretaries may not get away with slapdash arrangements easily this time as Anna Arivalayam is leaving nothing to chance. A cautious DMK treasurer M. K. Stalin has found alternate means to keep a tab on complacent district secretaries and elicit feedback from the local party units.

Speakers who attend the meetings should give a report of the public and street corner meetings to the high command after every meeting. Also, video evidence of the meetings should be sent. “From poor arrangements to infighting, the speakers will report everything to the high command. Even if the speakers fail, video evidence of the meetings will expose everything,” another party senior privy to the development said, explaining that the new arrangement will help the leadership to track far off districts easily.

“Though our leadership is familiar with the party units across the state, it has not been able to assess the prevailing situation at local levels.