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Without Thalaivi

With the assembly poll scheduled for April 2021, Tamilis hard at work to ensure his party, the AIADMK, wins for the third time in a row. The party is enlisting volunteers to its youth and women wings for each of the 65,000 polling booths in the state. Backed by a robust IT wing, these foot soldiers will be tasked with wooing voters first hand and door-to-door if possible, despite the constraints on campaigning during a pandemic. The party is clearly hoping to start its campaign on the right foot.

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