Chennai: The DMK today announced that it has convened a high-level committee meeting on February 2, a day ahead of its general council meeting, to discuss the organisational polls and membership enrollment.
The meeting would be chaired by party president M Karunanidhi, party general secretary K Anbazhagan said in a press release.
The party has already convened general council meeting on February 3 to discuss among other issues the Parliamentary elections due in 2014, indicating it wanted to prepare itself for the big event.
The inclusion of Parliamentary polls in the agenda for the DMK`s key decision-making body assumes significance in the backdrop of ruling AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa on December 30 putting her partymen on the poll mode asking them to prepare for the next Lok Sabha polls, predicting a bigger role for her party at the national level. The DMK General Council, along with the Executive, had met in Coimbatore last July, in the backdrop of its dismal show in the April 13 assembly polls and arrest of Karunanidhi`s daughter and party MP, Kanimozhi in the 2G spectrum scam case.
The February meeting comes at a time when the ties between Congress and DMK are not at their best with the regional party showing no hurry in filling up of its vacant slots in the Union Cabinet caused by the resignation of A Raja and Dayanidhi Maran, both facing the heat on the Telecom issue. PTI