Local body elections announcement in 15 days says deputy CM O. Panneerselvam:
Riding high on the recent by-election win AIADMK is gearing up for the proposed local body elections. The last polls to it were conducted in October 2011, and nearly after eight years, it is again to be undertaken before the Pongal festival. Over the previous eight years, only AIADMK is in power, and it should have conducted the elections in 2016 itself. But for more than three years, for one reason or the other, it has been postponed until now.
Now rejuvenated by the recent by-election victories, AIADMK is in full swing to conduct the elections. SEC or the State election commission, which had asked the Supreme Court to extend the time for this election by four weeks after its time ended on 30 October, is now waiting for its directive to conduct it as soon as possible. Sources say it may be performed in two phases in the last week of December and the first week of January 2020.
Deputy CM O. Panneerselvam confident of victory in the local body polls:
On 5 November, yesterday, the deputy chief minister O. Panneerselvam said local body elections announcement would be out in 15 days. He said this in the thanksgiving meeting in Nanguneri. Though lost in the MP elections, now the people understanding the pro-people policies of AIADMK, people have voted en masse for it.