chennai sources stated that opposition DMK on sunday said it has signed up political strategist prashant Kishor's indian Political Action Committee to help shape its campaign for the tamilnadu assembly elections next year. Furthermore in opposition for nearly a decade, the DMK, which is making an all out attempt to wrest power from the ruling AIADMK, said several young professionals of the I-PAC were joining hands with it.
Further for quite some time, there was speculation that actor cum politician Kamal Hassan-led Makkal Needhi Maiam and the DMK would sign up with the strategist for the 2021 assembly polls. Apparently DMK chief MK stalin took to twitter to formally announce the move. AIADMK, under the leadership of chief minister K Palaniswami (co-coordinator) and deputy chief minister O Panneerselvam (coordinator), is straining every nerve to strengthen the party and post electoral wins following the death of its supremo J jayalalitha in 2016. Palaniswami is co-coordinator and Panneerselvam coordinator of the AIADMK.
Moreover in a morale booster, the AIADMK wrested two assembly segments one each from the DMK and its ally congress in last year's bypolls and gave a tough fight to the Opposition in the recent rural civic polls, coming a close second. Perhaps buoyed by local body poll showing, the AIADMK has said it was on a "rebound mode" considering the fact that the DMK had swept the 2019 lok sabha polls, winning 38 of 39 seats in the state. Apparently stalin, who took over the mantle of party leadership after the death of DMK patriarch and his father M karunanidhi in 2018, has been hoping to dislodge the AIADMK from the seat of power.
