AIADMK overhauls governing council, key committees ahead of 2026 Tamil Nadu Assembly election

The AIADMK on Sunday reconstituted its governing council and also constituted its seat-sharing committee for holding talks with its alliance parties. Additionally, it established committees for election campaign, election publicity, legal and media liaison.

The announcement regarding the committees came a few hours before the Election Commission of India (ECI) was scheduled to announce the timetable for the Assembly polls in 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 commimttee.