Vijay announced the names of 17 new key office-bearers for various wings
Chennai: In a bid to strengthen the organizational infrastructure of the Tamilaga Vetri Kazhagam (TVK) and to develop a robust campaign machinery, the party’s founder president Vijay announced the names of 17 new key office-bearers for various wings with Adhav Arjuna, former deputy general secretary of the VCK, becoming the general secretary for campaign management on Friday.
Apart from Adhav Arjuna, another known political leader who had been co-opted by Vijay is C T R Nirmal Kumar, a former BJP leader who switched over the AIADMK and has now landed in the TVK as deputy general secretary for information technology and social media division.
The 17 new office-bearers, including A Rajmohan, a popular YouTuber who has been made the propaganda secretary, will be reporting to the party general secretary N Anand, and Adhav Arjuna would work in coordination with the party’s present election strategist John Arokiyasamy, Vijay said his message.
Adhav Arjuna is said to be an election strategist who had worked in the organization that had claimed to have advised Prime Minister Narendra Modi and also Chief Minister M K Stalin. His stint with the VCK that saw him trying to create a rift between the DMK and VCK ended with a disaster as the party suspended him for six months prompting him to leave.
Now that he would be guiding Vijay on the strategies to be adopted for the 2026 Assembly elections, an impression is sought to be created that the TVK would emerge as a formidable political force against the DMK in the hustings.
Since Vijay, on the formal launch of the party at Vikravandi in last October, had said that he was open to the idea of forging alliances with other parties to face the elections, speculations were ripe over several parties, desperate to defeat the DMK in the polls, trying to have a tie-up.
However, Vijay, who is still in the process of consolidating his party by roping in leaders from other parties apart from identifying potential leaders from his fan club, is said to have taken a wait and watch approach for he would also like to go it alone in the elections. But if things did not shape up for him to go solo, he would join hands with other parties.
