Overview

• Edappadi K. Palaniswami chaired a more-than-hour-long consultation with district secretaries at the AIADMK headquarters in Royapettah on Saturday.
• The session focused on accelerating booth-level work and refining poll operations, with party leaders also expected to weigh coalition contours and seat-sharing.
• Party insiders and observers say the meeting serves to calibrate the AIADMK’s response after Amit Shah’s claim that a BJP–AIADMK alliance will form the next Tamil Nadu government.
• EPS recently completed phase three of his statewide tour across 118 Assembly constituencies, and the fourth phase is scheduled to start from Madurai next Monday.
• Earlier in the day, EPS shared a stage with BJP leader K. Annamalai at a Moopanar memorial event, underscoring active interactions between the NDA partners.