AIADMK appoints panel for LS poll talks

Similarly, a seven-member committee to prepare poll manifesto under senior leader C Ponnaiyan was also announced by party leaders O Panneerselavm and Edappadi K Palaniswami. Deputy coordinators K P Munusamy, R Vaithilingam and organising secretary JCD Prabakar will join the ministers to decide on seat-sharing.

A statement from the party headquarters named former minister Natham R Viswanathan, ministers D Jayakumar, CV Shanmugam, organisational secretaries S Semmalai, PH Manoj Pandiyan and former Rajya Sabha Member Rabi Bernard as the members of party election manifesto committee.

“The BJP is inching closer towards the AIADMK and the political parties now have hardly a month’s time to decide on seat sharing,” said a senior AIADMK functionary. “The BJP has sent feelers to its former ally the PMK. We are also willing to work with the PMK in north TN,” the functionary added.