Eye on polls, AIADMK General SEcretary J Jayalalithaa announces IT core team of AIADMK Saturday August 29,2015

AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa on Saturday announced the core team that will lead the party’s Information Technology wing.

R. Balu of Dharmapuri, who has an M.Tech and MBA to his credit, is its new president.

The other office-bearers are as follows: N. Sharmila Vinodkumar and K. Anbuchezian (both from Chennai) are vice-presidents; Prasanna Azhagarsamy (Tiruvallur), R. Rajmohan (Virudhunagar), G. Karthikeyan (Tiruvallur), and G. Ramachandran (Coimbatore) are joint secretaries.

Deputy secretaries G. D. Thirumalavasan, T. Prasad, S. Balamurugan and K. Karthik are from Chennai and K. Shanmugavel is from Tirunelveli. S. T. Dharmesh Kumar (Tiruvallur), with an M.Sc., in IT is the treasurer.

With State Assembly elections scheduled next year, the appointment of this new team is pertinent for the party which used Facebook and WhatsApp extensively during the 2014 Lok Sabha elections for campaigning. Even before that, in the run up to the 2011 Assembly election, video clips were circulated through MMS and using bluetooth technology. The party has also integrated IT in its day-to -day functioning