As migration continues, AIADMK says its organisation is intact
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In the months instantly after the dying of Chief Minister Jayalalithaa in December 2016, many AIADMK leaders took delight in saying that even a break up within the get together didn’t make any of their colleagues, nevertheless disgruntled they had been, to affix the DMK. But they’re in no place to make that assertion now.
On Sunday, AIADMK veteran and former Namakkal MP P.R. Sundaram and former Minister Thoppu N.D. Venkatachalam joined the ruling get together. A couple of days in the past, one other former MP Vijila Sathyanand joined the DMK. Their erstwhile colleagues, together with P. Palaniappan and Jayanthi Padmanabhan who had been with the AMMK till not too long ago, selected the DMK to proceed their political profession.
Expressing concern, long-standing members of the AIADMK level out that there have been indications of the pattern even within the months earlier than the election. Dissatisfied members of the get together had been fielded by the DMK within the election. One instance was R. Lakshmanan, who defeated former Law Minister C.Ve. Shanmugam in Villupuram. He was a distinguished face of the camp of O. Panneerselvam within the northern district through the latter’s ‘dharmayudham’ marketing campaign in opposition to former interim common secretary V.K. Sasikala. But he needed to take the again seat after the merger of the camps led by Edappadi K. Palaniswami and Mr. Panneerselvam in August 2017.
Asked whether or not the truth that the DMK is in energy had attracted him to the get together, after he opposed it for almost 50 years, Mr. Sundaram gave an emphatic “no” in response. He stated he was “impressed” with how Chief Minister M.K. Stalin had been conducting himself, particularly after coming to energy. “He has got the portrait of Amma [Jayalalithaa] restored at ‘Amma Unavagams’. He is following inclusive politics,” he identified.
A senior functionary of the AMMK didn’t connect any significance to a few of his colleagues becoming a member of the DMK, saying that they had left for “greener pastures”. D. Jayakumar, an organisation secretary and former Fisheries Minister, stated it was nothing new for the AIADMK to see “a few individuals” depart the get together after the lack of energy.
This occurred when M.G. Ramachandran’s authorities was dismissed in February 1980, and when Jayalalithaa misplaced energy in 1996. The AIADMK is an “organisation of workers” whose roots “will ever remain intact”, he stated.
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