To release party manifesto today

DMK leader M.K. Stalin will launch his Lok Sabha and Assembly bypoll election campaign from Tiruvarur, the home town of his father and late party leader M. Karunanidhi, on March 20. He will release the party manifesto on Tuesday.

Mr. Stalin, who has been the star campaigner of the party ever since his father took ill, will cover the Nagapattinam Lok Sabha constituency and the Tiruvarur Assembly constituency on Wednesday. It will be followed by a public meeting in Tiruvarur.

In the evening, he will campaign in the Thanjavur Lok Sabha and Assembly constituencies and address a public meeting.

The first phase of his campaign will end in the Villupuram Lok Sabha constituency and the Arni Assembly constituency on April 6.

Before that he will cover Perambalur, Salem, Dharmapuri, Tiruvannamalai, North Chennai, Kancheepuram, Tiruvallur, Dindigul, Theni, Madurai, Virudhunagar, Sivaganga, Ramanathapuram, Krishnagiri, Vellore, Arakkonam, South Chennai, The Nilgiris, Tirupur, Coimbatore, Pollachi, Erode and Karur Lok Sabha constituencies and other Assembly constituencies.