Individuals used to walk or cycle for miles to tune in to the discourse of pioneers, for example, E V Ramasamy, affectionately known as Periyar, and his supporters C N Annadurai, M Karunanidhi and M G Ramachandran. Despite everything I recall, individuals paid cash to go to open gatherings of Anna, said a DMK functionary. That was at that point. Shouldn’t something be said about at this point? Presently, functionaries of every single ideological group concede in private that they need to pay to acquire the groups. Many gathering functionaries have turned out to resemble occasion the board experts.
There’s a rate card and you can pick and pick, blend and match. To such an extent that the Election Commission itself has fixed consumption cards for each locale.
That is the manner by which it figures how much each gathering spends on its gatherings and energizes. Legislators mourn that this cell phone-toting age possesses no energy for or enthusiasm for going to revitalizes. They watch everything — pioneers’ addresses, roadshows — on their telephones. So it’s hard to bring groups to political gatherings. Indeed, even the principle hopefuls, the AIADMK, and the DMK, the battle to guarantee there are no unfilled seats at their fundamental chiefs’ gatherings. Some who do the gathering functionaries swing to? They tie up with ladies’ self-improvement gatherings, farming workers, understudies and day by day wage workers. For a fair horde of 200 for a roadshow, an ideological group needs to burn through ₹50,000 to ₹80,000. Transport and nourishment rely upon time and spot of the gathering, said an AIADMK region level functionary.