CHENNAI, Jan. 29 -- Taking a cue from J Jayalalithaa, the late Chief Minister and AIADMK supremo, the DMK leadership has asked the party cadre to 'work from now onwards' to make a clean sweep in the 2021 Assembly election.

Encouraged and enthused by the party's performance in the Lok Sabha election held in April 2019, when the DMK- led front bagged 38 out of the 39 seats which were in stake from Tamil Nadu, Stalin asked in a personal letter to the party cadre to treat 2020 too as an election year though the Assembly polls are one year away.

"We can reap the benefits only if we start working from now onwards. I want all the party cadre to be out in the field for the whole of 2020 so that the party could wrest the power it lost in 2011 when...