Tiruchirappalli: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin will launch DMK's poll campaign at the party's 12th state conference from Siruganur on the Trichy-Chennai national highway on Monday.

The conference theme is "Let Stalin continue, let Tamil Nadu win".

Apart from highlighting the achievements of the state government, Stalin, who is the president of the DMK, is likely to make key announcements targeting the upcoming Assembly election, a senior leader in the party said.

Earlier, in a letter to party workers, Stalin described the conference as an important political event that would gear up the DMK for the 2026 Assembly election and help pave the way for forming a Dravidian model 2.0 government.

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He would hoist the party flag on a 110-foot-high flagpole at the event for which the organisers expect around ten lakh participants.

Stalin had addressed a similar conference before the 2021 Assembly election from the same venue and announced crucial election promises.

DMK principal secretary and state Municipal Administration Minister K N Nehru told reporters that the conference will commence at 3 pm.

The DMK had won 133 seats on its own in the 2021 Assembly polls and the Secular Progressive Alliance led by it secured a total of 159 seats in the 234-member Assembly.

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Dismissing the ruling DMK's mega-conference being organised on Monday in Trichy as a "manufactured awakening", the TVK claimed that no amount of "artificial boosters" could save the ruling party from the growing public tide in favour of actor-politician Vijay.

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In a rebuttal to the DMK's claim of a political "uprising" in the state's central hub, TVK leader Nanjil Sampath mocked the ruling dispensation's massive mobilisation efforts during a media briefing here on Sunday.

"There is no real awakening there," Sampath said, suggesting the DMK's show of strength was forced rather than organic.

The war of words comes as both parties vie for dominance in the crucial Delta region. While the DMK has framed its Trichy conference as the "Mother of all Uprisings" to signal its readiness for the 2026 Assembly polls, the TVK countered that the ruling party is acting out of "sheer fear" of Vijay's recent successful rally in Thanjavur.