TMC office-bearers resign en masse
All 24 office-bearers of the Tamil Maanila
Congress have submitted their resignations to party president G K
Moopanar in order to give him a free hand to reorganise the party in the
wake of its poor performance in the general election.
The office-bearers took the decision at a meeting held at
Satyamurthy Bhavan, the party headquarters, on Saturday. The TMC won only
four of the 20 seats it had contested.
TMC general secretary S G Vinayakamurthy told reporters that 16
presidents of various front organisations also submitted their
resignation to Moopanar.
All 36 district presidents will also submit
their resignations to Moopanar for a thorough overhaul of the
party apparatus, he said, and that while some of them have already submitted their resignations, the others will do so shortly.
Moopanar said earlier that the party's performance was not
satisfactory. Instead of reviewing the party's poor performance,
the office-bearers took the initiative to resign, to facilitate
the party president to revamp the party, he added.
The party had won all the 20 seats it had contested in the
1996 election.
UNI
Elections '98
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