Former CM Wigs goes to Vaddukoddai

Candidates who find it difficult to conduct an aggressive election campaign amid the COVID-19 pandemic are trying various stunts to gain votes.

In the North, many go along with popular, well known local faces, when asking for votes in electorates.

Others simply called up their local party sympathisers and informed them to get some of their relatives for the pocket meetings in the neighbourhood due to current health guidelines.

One candidate lamented that he has to address so many poorly attended pocket meetings which consume so much of time and resources rather than addressing a major meeting with the participation of a decent number of people.

But the Northern Province's former Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran who broke away from the Tamil National Alliance ( TNA) to form his new party to contest the polls tried something new.

He decided to inaugurate his party campaign rally at a significant place in Vaddukoddai, the exact place where the infamous Vaddukoddai Resolution was passed to call for a separate state. This was done by the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) in 1976.