O.S. Manian denies Aadhav Arjuna’s claim on attempt to forge DMK-AIADMK alliance

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Former Handlooms Minister and the AIADMK’s legislator from Vedaranyam, O.S. Manian, who is with the campy led by the wide caput Edappadi K. Palaniswami, connected Wednesday denied the assertion of Minister for Public Works and Sports Development Aadhav Arjuna that the AIADMK and the DMK had tried to forge an confederation successful the run-up to the enactment of authorities successful the State. 

He told journalists successful Chennai that the AIADMK wide caput had,  both wrong and extracurricular the legislature in the past 5 years, “highlighted vigorously the lapses” of the erstwhile DMK regime on antithetic issues specified arsenic instrumentality and order, the prevalence of cause menace and information to women.  This was wherefore the party and its allies had won in 53 assembly constituencies. “The main crushed for the show was Mr Palaniswami’s strident disapproval of the DMK,” Mr Manian pointed out. 

As for Mr Arjuna, the former Minister recalled that helium had been a member in different parties. He had erstwhile approached Mr Palaniswami with a petition to go the lawman wide caput successful the AIADMK but this was not accepted. 

On the gathering taken by the wide secretary on Tuesday with territory secretaries and headquarters’ bureau bearers, different look of the Palaniswami camp and erstwhile Agriculture Minister, S. S. “Agri” Krishnamurthy, asserted that retired of 78 district secretaries, 75 took part. Likewise, retired of 81 HQ office bearers, 60 attended with 10 having sent their letters, intimating their inability to beryllium present. Three others were not keeping well. 

Countering the statement of the rebel leader C.Ve. Shanmugam astir electoral reverses that the enactment had been suffering since the 2019 Lok Sabha election, Mr Krishnamurthy said Mr Palaniswami had given, each along, tickets to candidates successful polls connected the ground of proposal of territory secretaries specified as Mr Shanmugam and different rebel leader, S.P. Velumani, some of whom were territory secretaries till precocious for Villupuram and Coimbatore (suburban-south) respectively. 

Mr Krishnamurthy said that Mr Palaniswami, contempt knowing that the enactment mightiness not beryllium capable to clasp its 5th spot successful the Rajya Sabha, had allowed Mr Shanmugam, who had 2 much years to spell for the completion of his word successful the Upper House, to contention successful the Assembly predetermination this time.  He besides announced that “Porvaall,” a caller enactment organ, had been launched.

Published - May 20, 2026 06:28 p.m. IST

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