Chennai: Giving a clarion call to his party cadre to prepare for the 2026 Assembly elections as the DMK should win more than 200 of the 234 total seats in the State, Chief Minister M K Stalin invited them all to Coimbatore on Saturday, June 15, to attend the Mupperum Vizha (Grand Tri-fest) of the party that is being organized ahead of the annual party festival with the same title ‘Mupperum Vizha’ held in September.
The Coimbatore event was to mark the culmination of the centenary celebration of M Karunanidhi, to thank the people of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry for handing out a 40/40 result in the just concluded Parliamentary election and to felicitate Stalin for effectively guiding the INDIA alliance in the state towards the resounding victory.
In his epistle to his party cadre on Wednesday, Stalin said the festival was not just for the DMK or the DMK and its allies but for all the people of the State, who had reined in communalism and given a mandate to protect the Constitution through their electoral verdict.
Pointing out that the DMK and its allies have romped home in 221 of the 234 Assembly constituencies falling under the 39 Lok Sabha seats in the State, he said it was the certificate of appreciation issued by the people to the government that had earned their confidence in the past three years through an array of welfare schemes that had touched almost all families.
To strengthen the faith the people had reposed on the government, to ensure the continuation of the Dravidian Model government’s successful schemes, to reach the schemes to the intended beneficiaries and to explain to them their long term benefits, party cadre should strive hard, he said.
Replying to those in the opposition camp wondering as to what the DMK-led alliance would to do with the 40 seats from Tamil Nadu and Puducherry that it had pocketed when it had no scope to form the government, Stalin said that it was the bridle to those in power and was the protective shield of democracy.
The Grand Tri-fest would be a celebration of democracy as the victory in the Lok Sabha polls had given hope for Indian democracy itself and the selection of Coimbatore as the venue was to acknowledge the realization of the people of the State’s western region that some parties, behaving as though the area belonged to them, had been taking them for a ride for political gain, he said.
Describing every party event, be it a conference or a celebration or a public meeting, as a training programme for cadre not just an occasion to gather and disperse, he said the Coimbatore event was to prepare them for the immediate Vikravandi by-election, then the coming rural local body polls and of course the 2026 Assembly election.
The event would be held at the CODISSIA ground, Coimbatore, from 4 pm on June 15 with the Chief Minister presiding over it and all MPs from Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, DMK office bearers from every district and other leaders of the party and its allies taking part in it.
