AIADMK singled out in RK Nagar bypoll battle
In a rare political situation, the ruling party has been singled out in the by-election to RK Nagar assembly constituency with the MDMK extendingn its support to the Opposition DMK on Sunday. The primary reason cited by these opposition parties was the ruling dispensation’s servitude to the Centre.
By : migrator
Update: 2017-12-03 22:35 GMT
Chennai
The rainbow alliance of anti BJP parties makes DMK’s Maruthu Ganesh a common candidate of the Opposition in the state, while the supposed friendly party of the government —the BJP —announcing its own candidate to the seat.
AIADMK’s alliance partner – Manithaneya Janayaka Katchi general secretary and Nagapattinam MLA Thamimun Ansari had announced that he would support neither the ruling faction candidate E Madhusudhanan, who is contesting in the AIADMK party
ticket nor the rival faction candidate TTV Dinakaran, who is now contesting as an independent. “The present ties of the ruling dispensation with the BJP will not bring any good to the state but only turmoil,” he said.
Thiruvadanai MLA S Karunaas, actor and AIADMK alliance partner, told DT Next that his outfit Mukkulathor Puli Padai had not taken any stand yet on the bypoll.
“I would consult my officebearers and then take a decision,” he said, while Kangeyam MLA U Thaniyarasu, when contacted, echoed the views of Karunaas regarding his support to either of the factions.
“The entire Opposition is rallying behind the DMK.
Even the DMDK, which had boycotted the bypoll, might change its stand and extend its support, if the DMK working president MK Stalin speaks to DMDK founder Vijayakanth,” Thaniyarasu opined. PMK too had boycotted the bypoll.
Congress and Indian Union Muslim League are already in the DMK’s alliance bag, while the MDMK is the latest to warm up to the party. MDMK is also the last constituent of the People Welfare Alliance (PWA) to come back to the DMK’s fold.
VCK leader Thol Thirumavalavan was the first to express his support, followed by CPI and CPM. All three, which account for the rest of PWA had extended their support to the DMK in view of preserving the state’s rights and interests, which they had found to be missing in the ruling dispensation.
Both CPI and CPM had adopted strongly-worded resolutions to this effect.
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