AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami. File
| Photo Credit: E. Lakshmi Narayanan
The AIADMK on Sunday (March 15, 2026) reconstituted its governing council and also constituted its seat-sharing committee for holding talks with its alliance parties. It also formed committees for election campaign, election publicity, legal and media liaison.
The announcement on the committees came a few hours before the Election Commission of India (ECI) was slated to announce the schedule for the Assembly polls for Tamil Nadu on Sunday (March 15) evening.
AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami would be the chairperson of the party’s governing council. Party’s presidium chairman A. Tamil Magan Hussain, K.P. Munusamy, Dindigul C. Sreenivasan, S.P. Velumani, B. Valarmathi, P. Venugopal, A. Justin Selvaraj and I.S. Inbadurai are the other members of the council.
Senior party leaders and former Ministers K.P. Munusamy, Dindigul C. Sreenivasan, S.P.Velumani and B. Valarmathi are part of the seat sharing committee. The BJP and the PMK led by its leader Anbumani Ramadoss are the major allies in the AIADMK alliance in Tamil Nadu.
Senior leaders M. Thambi Durai, N. Thalavaisundaram, Sellur K. Raju, P. Dhanapal, K.P. Anbalagan, R. Kamaraj, S. Gokula Indira, P. Benjamin, Udumalai K. Radhakrishnan, N.R. Sivapathi are part of the election campaign committee.
In the election publicity committee, senior party leaders C. Vijayabaskar, Kadambur C. Raju, K.T. Rajenthra Bhalaji, Agri S.S. Krishnamurthy, P. Venugopal, S. Abdul Rahim, V.V.R. Raj Satyen and V.M. Rajalakshmi have been named.
The party has named C.Ve. Shanmugam, V.S. Sethuraman, I.S. Inbadurai, R.M. Babu Murugavel and E. Balamurugan as part of the legal team. It has named P. Thangamani, D. Jayakumar, R.B. Udhayakumar, S.S. Vaigaichelvan, V.P.B. Paramasivam, ‘Ma Foi’ Pandiarajan, S. Kalyanasundaram as members of the media liaison committee.
Published – March 15, 2026 03:59 pm IST
