AMMK part of NDA, no merger with AIADMK, says TTV
TIRUCHY: AMMK will never merge with the AIADMK and we have been continuing with our journey for which we have launched the party, said party general secretary TTV Dhinakaran in Thanjavur on Wednesday.
Speaking to reporters, Dhinakaran said, AIADMK is in the hands of selfish people and it has been losing its ground and Edappadi K Palaniswami has been fooling the party cadre. “The vote percentage has been reduced this time in at least 20 segments than in 2019. AIADMK had played as a ‘B’ team for the DMK and worked for the defeat of the NDA in the just concluded Lok Sabha polls, but still, the NDA has secured 18.50 per cent votes and this is an indication that the NDA will form government in Tamil Nadu,” Dhinakaran said.
The AMMK leader continued in the same vein and said that he secured close to 3 lakh votes, but the AIADMK candidate forfeited deposit in the constituency that was considered as the AIADMK stronghold. “Palaniswami and a few other selfish persons are fooling themselves by thinking that they have the party and the ‘TwoLeaves’ symbol with them. The true loyalists and cadre of the AIADMK should not fall for their tricks and work to revive the party,” he said.
He continued that he would face the upcoming Assembly polls as part of the National Democratic Alliance and emerge victorious to form the government. The ruling DMK would taste a defeat similar to the Assembly results in 2011, while the AIADMK under the EPS would continue its unsuccessful electoral journey.
Meanwhile Dhinakaran said there is no chance of AMMK merging with AIADMK at any cost, but he wanted the factions of AIADMK to unitedly work for the interest of the cadres.
“We will hold talks with the NDA leaders and decide on fielding candidates in the bypoll,” he said while responding on fielding candidates for the bypoll for Vikravandi constituency.