: Founder president of the Tamizhaga Vetri Kazhagam (TVK), actor Vijay, is said to be bogged down by the inexperience of his nascent party’s functionaries and workers in election related work that the party had to make an announcement urging cadre to carry out their own campaign to create an awareness on the ongoing revision of draft electoral rolls by the Election Commission of India (ECI). Though all party workers, particularly the booth committee members and polling agents of established parties, start their election related work even as the ECI starts its revision of electoral rolls, in TVK the grassroots workers had to be conscientized on the procedures, which seasoned political workers take to like fish to water. So raising the booth committees, whose members form the party’s final and crucial link to the voter, had become an arduous task for the TVK with the elections just over a year away and the clock ticking fast.
Not only the present army of cadre have no exposure to electoral warfare but also the present crop of leaders remain clueless on how to guide the foot soldiers. A bid by the party high command to rope in experienced political leaders into the rank and file had to be shelved as those seasoned politicians, whether they have retired from active politics or remained dormant in other parties, are said to be aspiring for key posts in the party, which cannot be conceded, taking into account the sentiments of the erstwhile fan association members forming the b.
