Chennai, Mar 15 (PTI) Tamil Nadu’s ruling DMK, main opposition AIADMK and other political parties on Sunday welcomed the announcement of the election schedule by the EC and expressed confidence of winning the April 23 polls.
From the day DMK president MK Stalin assumed office as CM, his focus is only on doing good to the people and the welfare schemes of the government are being emulated by the rest of the country, party office-bearer Salem Dharanidharan said.
The preparations for polls actually started from the day Stalin assumed office as the chief minister of Tamil Nadu. “The DMK would secure a huge victory in the polls…it will be a sweep; winning more than 200 seats out of the 234,” he said.
AIADMK spokesperson Kovai Sathyan said, “Our party chief Edappadi K Palaniswami has already covered campaign in nearly 200 constituencies. We are ready to face polls even tomorrow and whenever it is held we are going to win.” The people are with the AIADMK, he said and expressed confidence that his party and its allies would bag a huge win and form the next government in Tamil Nadu. The AIADMK heads the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and the constituents include BJP, AMMK and PMK.
BJP leader Narayanan Thirupathy said “We are ready to face the elections and people have prepared themselves to vote for the NDA to dislodge the DMK government.” Listing out several issues including alleged deterioration of law and order situation and rise in crimes, he expressed confidence of AIADMK-BJP combine winning the polls.
Congress senior leader P Chidambaram welcomed the poll announcement.
“I welcome the announcement that elections will be held in Assam, Kerala, Puducherry and Tamil Nadu in one phase and that elections will be held in West Bengal in two phases. I am glad that the number of phases has been compressed to one phase/two phases,” he said in a social media post. PTI VGN VGN SA
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