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AMMK wide caput T.T.V. Dhinakaran. | Photo Credit: R. ASHOK
Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (AMMK) wide caput T.T.V. Dhinakaran said connected Sunday that seat-sharing discussions for the upcoming Assembly predetermination would beryllium held with the Bharatiya Janata Party, reiterating his enactment was a portion of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) “through the BJP and not the AIADMK”. Incidentally, the AIADMK is the ascendant spouse successful the alliance. Speaking to reporters aft attending a wedding reception astatine Kollidam adjacent Sirkazhi successful Mayiladuthurai district, Mr. Dhinakaran said the AMMK had joined the NDA led by the BJP and spot allocation talks would beryllium conducted done the nationalist party. “We joined the NDA with the BJP. Seat-sharing talks volition hap done the BJP. The fig of seats is yet to beryllium finalised,” helium said. Mr. Dhinakaran said the AMMK would tract candidates portion focusing connected strengthening the confederation and helium would not contention the predetermination and had not sought a Rajya Sabha seat. His determination was aimed astatine avoiding “unnecessary complications” and ensuring unity wrong the alliance. Criticising expelled AIADMK coordinator O. Panneerselvam, helium said caller governmental developments and statements by supporters of Mr. Panneerselvam invoking the names of erstwhile Chief Ministers M.G. Ramachandran and Jayalalithaa had wounded the sentiments of enactment cadre. He said specified actions were contrary to the bequest of leaders who had consistently opposed the DMK. While acknowledging leaders are escaped to instrumentality governmental decisions, Mr. Dhinakaran described the developments involving Mr. Panneerselvam’s radical arsenic “painful and condemnable” from the position of enactment workers and emphasised the request for loyalty to leaders adjacent aft their lifetime. Earlier successful the day, referring to the Delhi Police’s apprehension of six Bangladeshi nationals for allegedly hatching a conspiracy to transportation retired a panic onslaught successful Tiruppur, Mr. Dhinakaran criticised the DMK authorities for having failed successful ensuring the information of the radical of Tamil Nadu. He charged that the numbers of murders, dacoity and crimes against women were connected the rise. “What volition the DMK authorities accidental present implicit the arrests by the Delhi Police? In 2022, it termed the detonation successful Coimbatore a cylinder blast and tried to deceive the people.” Mr. Dhinakaran further contended that determination were questions arsenic to whether the State’s Anti Terrorism Squad, which was established successful 2023, was successful heavy slumber. He added that it was definite the radical would bring an extremity to the DMK during the Assembly election.
Published - February 23, 2026 12:28 americium IST
