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Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (AMMK) laminitis T.T.V. Dhinakaran connected Tuesday (January 27, 2026) exuded assurance that determination was a anticipation that the AIADMK would accommodate representatives of his enactment successful its furniture aft the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) comes to powerfulness successful the 2026 Assembly election.
“Political pundits accidental the existent governmental concern successful Tamil Nadu favoured a conjugation government, and determination is simply a accidental that we volition beryllium accommodated successful the AIADMK cabinet,” Mr. Dhinakaran told journalists successful Madurai.
The thought of “sharing power” successful the State authorities was lone his “wish, and not a condition,” helium said, adding that this tendency for furniture berths for AMMK functionaries was to compensate his followers, who had “given up plum posts successful the erstwhile AIADMK authorities and party.”
However, the AMMK volition not enactment immoderate unit connected the AIADMK for furniture berths. “It volition beryllium handled with attraction and successful a affable manner. We cognize the pros and cons of an alliance. The AIADMK besides knows that our demands would beryllium tenable and for qualified persons only,” Mr. Dhinakaran said.
‘Delicate concern for OPS’
Responding to a question, the erstwhile MP said helium had already extended an invitation to erstwhile Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam to articulation the NDA. “It is for Mr. Panneerselvam to instrumentality a call. My privation is that helium should articulation america to assistance signifier Jayalalithaa’s authorities successful Tamil Nadu,” helium said.
Mr. Panneerselvam has a ineligible quality against the AIADMK precocious bid and hence, it is “a delicate concern for him to articulation the NDA,” which is led by the AIADMK.
He regretted that AIADMK functionaries, including erstwhile MLA R. Vaithilingam, had joined the DMK. However, connected AMMK’s lawman wide caput S.V.S.P. Manickaraja joining the DMK, Mr. Dhinakaran said the section governmental concern forced him to permission AMMK.
“He was aiming to contention the Assembly predetermination from Kovilpatti Assembly seat. Since helium felt that it was not imaginable (with the AMMK joining the NDA), helium switched implicit to the DMK,” Mr. Dhinakaran added.
