Spend More Time in Districts: CM to Ministers

Stalin says AIADMK succumbed to BJP's 'coercive tactics'; DMK to hold general council meeting on June 1 in Madurai

- EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE @ Chennai

In a clear message to party workers ahead of the Assembly election next year, DMK president and Chief Minister M K Stalin has said candidates for the polls would be decided by the party high command and that it is the responsibility of the district secretaries to ensure their victory, even as the party condemned the BJP-led union government for "misusing" central investigating agencies for "vendetta politics" and vowed to legally face it, apart from taking the issue to the people's court.

In a meeting of the party's district secretaries here on Saturday, Stalin instructed the ministers to spend more time in their districts instead of remaining in Chennai and asked the MLAs to visit every ward and village in their respective constituencies.