"Me, your OPS calling you," he began, and went onto thank listeners forPanneerselvam revolted against interim general secretary V K Sasikala on Tuesday, two days afterto pave way for the close-aide of Jayalalithaa to take over the reins of the government.Before the voice SMS campaign, the I-T wing had tasted success with its missed call campaign, launched on Thursday. In the first two days, it received about 2.5 lakh calls from outside Tamil Nadu, predominantly from South India , and another 1.5 lakh calls from abroad. "Within three days, the campaign got over three million calls. It was then the CM himself decided to reach out to all his supporters by sending voice SMS with thanks message," said Aspire K Swaminathan, AIADMK former I-T wing secretary, who was instrumental in launching the drive.Interestingly, much of the I-T wing, after his dramatic revelation against Sasikala clan at Jayalalithaa memorial. The members are aggressively taking turns to garner support for OPS.The campaign includes floating #IsupportOPS on social media, and circulation of mobile numbers of each of the AIADMK MLAs.

Source: Times of India February 12, 2017 06:04 UTC