DMK, AIADMK and BJP will join hands to take on Vijay: Nirmal Kumar
Speaking to reporters after paying tribute to Maruthu Pandiyar brothers in Madurai on their 225th death anniversary, Nirmal Kumar said DMK and AIADMK were responsible for their own decline. There is no doubt about that,” he said. He and R B Udhayakumar should decide which AIADMK they belong to, whether they are moving towards T T V Dhinakaran or planning to make him the party’s general secretary,” he said. Reacting to Nirmal Kumar’s criticism, former AIADMK minister Dindigul C Sreenivasan on Saturday accused him of being a “party hopper”. “How did AIADMK secure more than 45,000 votes in the bypoll constituencies?” he asked. Sreenivasan also alleged that the “drug culture” prevalent during the DMK regime was now spreading unchecked under the TVK govt and claimed that TVK functionaries were involved in several such cases. Earlier reporting noted: Speaking to reporters in Sivaganga after paying tribute to the Maruthu brothers on their death anniversary, Dhinakaran said TVK leaders’ claims that the AIADMK and DMK were planning to join hands were intended to conceal the manner in which the party had formed the govt. We did not seek the DMK’s support,” he said.
“They decided to join hands to form a govt against the chief minister. In the next election, the AIADMK, DMK and BJP will come together against the chief minister. He also claimed that DMK and AIADMK had entered into mutual concessions while contesting the bypolls to the Dharapuram and Madurantakam assembly constituencies. Responding to former AIADMK minister Sellur K Raju’s comment that the current dispensation was ‘temporary,’ Nirmal Kumar questioned Raju’s political standing. “First, Sellur Raju must decide whether he is with Edappadi K Palaniswami’s AIADMK or another faction. In a video statement, former AIADMK minister Udhayakumar had alleged that multiple power centres were operating within the TVK. “I was part of the AIADMK-BJP alliance.
Earlier reporting noted: He alleged that TVK had lured AIADMK MLAs into resigning by promising them positions and secured the support of other AIADMK legislators during the trust vote. Madurai: Law minister C T R Nirmal Kumar on Saturday claimed that DMK , AIADMK and BJP would join hands in the next election to take on chief minister C Joseph Vijay. Earlier reporting noted: CHENNAI: AMMK chief T T V Dhinakaran on Saturday said the DMK and AIADMK would never join hands, claiming that efforts had been made to facilitate the return of the Edappadi K Palaniswami-led AIADMK to power with the support of TVK if it failed to form the govt on its own.