<p class="title">Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lead a mega rally of the NDA in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday, the first after the ruling AIADMK clinched an alliance with the BJP and the PMK.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The public meeting will serve as a platform for Modi and other leaders of NDA's constituents to launch the coalition's poll campaign ahead of the Lok Sabha polls.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) leaders Dr S Ramadoss and his son Anbumani will be participating in the meeting at suburban Vandalur, in their first major political engagement as National Democratic Alliance (NDA) constituents.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Chief Minister K Palaniswami and his Deputy O Panneerselvam had earlier attended a public meeting addressed by Modi in Kanyakumari last week, where the prime minister also launched various government initiatives.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The meeting was held days after the AIADMK sealed a poll pact with the saffron party.</p>.<p class="bodytext">On Tuesday, PMK leader G K Mani, in a statement, appealed to cadres to join the rally in large numbers and said party president S Ramadoss would take part in the rally as a show of strength and a good beginning for the alliance.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"All the alliance party leaders are expected to take part in the rally and I appeal to functionaries to participate in large numbers and show it as a show of strength," he said.</p>
<p class="title">Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lead a mega rally of the NDA in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday, the first after the ruling AIADMK clinched an alliance with the BJP and the PMK.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The public meeting will serve as a platform for Modi and other leaders of NDA's constituents to launch the coalition's poll campaign ahead of the Lok Sabha polls.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) leaders Dr S Ramadoss and his son Anbumani will be participating in the meeting at suburban Vandalur, in their first major political engagement as National Democratic Alliance (NDA) constituents.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Chief Minister K Palaniswami and his Deputy O Panneerselvam had earlier attended a public meeting addressed by Modi in Kanyakumari last week, where the prime minister also launched various government initiatives.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The meeting was held days after the AIADMK sealed a poll pact with the saffron party.</p>.<p class="bodytext">On Tuesday, PMK leader G K Mani, in a statement, appealed to cadres to join the rally in large numbers and said party president S Ramadoss would take part in the rally as a show of strength and a good beginning for the alliance.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"All the alliance party leaders are expected to take part in the rally and I appeal to functionaries to participate in large numbers and show it as a show of strength," he said.</p>