Chief Minister Vijay is set to personally summon all 109 TVK MLAs to a private hotel in Chennai at 11 a.m. today for an important consultation. Those familiar with the matter say this meeting is a precautionary move, as the opposition may bring a no-confidence motion against the government after November 13.
The TVK government proved its majority in the Legislative Assembly on May 13. By convention, the opposition parties move the next no-confidence motion only after six months have passed since the majority was proved. In that sense, six months will be completed on November 13 since the TVK government proved its majority.
It is in this context that, as a precaution, the Chief Minister is set to meet all of TVK’s MLAs by summoning them to Chennai. This consultation meeting is expected to take place at a private resort on ECR. On Sunday afternoon, Minister Bussy Anand contacted each MLA by phone and, along with Diwali wishes, told them that there is an important meeting on Wednesday and asked them to come to Chennai. On behalf of the leadership, it was said that the venue of the meeting would be announced later. Even this left many MLAs confused.
Usually, all such meetings are held in Panaiyur itself... But this time, even after repeatedly calling and speaking among themselves about what was new, nothing became clear. Most of the MLAs had already arrived in Chennai last night. Even after passing on the information that they had reached to the leadership, the leadership did not say anything about the location where the meeting would be held. Even until this morning, the MLAs were not told where or at what time the meeting would take place. Only at 9 a.m. did they inform them that the meeting would be at 11 a.m. at a resort on ECR. The MLAs who were staying in the city are now rushing by car to ECR. Meanwhile, when information came that rooms had been booked at the resort for three days, the MLAs are traveling to ECR with the confusion of what exactly is going to happen... and why so much secrecy.
Senior leaders close to the Chief Minister, who spoke to us about this, said, 'A no-confidence motion may be brought after November 13. Using that as the focus, DMK and AIADMK members are trying to lure our MLAs. The Chief Minister is also going to warn the MLAs about this and give some important instructions. It is precisely to ensure that this information does not leak out that the meeting has been planned at a resort instead of being held at the party office.'