While the more aggressive section in the AIADMK would like to believe that their Amma will give a fitting reply at the meeting to ``upstarts'' in the BJP-led coalition--those who `bite the very hands which helped them win the 1998 elections'--some party seniors feel that the meeting would at the most adopt a harshly worded resolution hitting out at the ``opportunists'' in the coalition besides taking up ``routine'' matters.

Nevertheless, they admit, there was bound to be an echo of the ominous threat issued by eight top functionaries of the AIADMK in a statement yesterday at the general council tomorrow, perhaps in the party supremo J. Jayalalitha's address itself. Other frontline leaders are also bound to makeblistering attacks against the BJP and its constituents who seem to be on a collision course with the AIADMK.

Senior partymen feel that there is no real threat to the BJP-led coalition at the Centre. ``At the most, the meeting will pass a resolution hitting out at the opportunists in the BJP-led coalition,'' a senior partyman said. The resolution is likely to reflect the sentiments expressed in the joint statement issued by senior AIADMK leaders yesterday, he adds.

Meanwhile, several senior partymen, including Union Law Minister M Thambidurai, Union Minister of State for Personnel M R Janardhanam, party presidium chairman V R Nedunchezhian, party treasurer and former Union Minister Sedapatti R Muthiah, met Jayalalitha at her Poes Garden residence this evening.

Resolutions ratifying the nominated posts in the party, including that of headquarters office-bearers and a few amendments in the party by-laws are likely to be passed tomorrow, according to party sources.

Nearly 3,000 members of the council,comprising MLAs, MPs, the newly-elected party office-bearers, including women functionaries, and elected representatives of the local bodies will participate in the general council meeting, the first after the intra party polls held towards the end of last year.