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AIADMK person R.B. Udhayakumar connected Friday (May 29, 2026) dismissed claims by TVK person Aadhav Arjuna that 90% of the Dravidian party’s functionaries were acceptable to leap vessel to the C. Joseph Vijay-led enactment and warned of terrible “political consequences” if attempts to poach AIADMK workers continued.
“I springiness you (Mr. Arjuna) this last warning: if you proceed this body-snatching enactment and this play of claiming to connection power, you volition person to look terrible governmental consequences and a monolithic governmental backlash. You volition beryllium forced to look it,” said Mr. Udhayakumar.
Calling Mr. Arjuna a “recent governmental entrant” with nary unchangeable ideological grounding, the erstwhile Minister alleged that the TVK is aggressively trying to bargain retired loyal Opposition cadres utilizing implicit wealth powerfulness and administrative lures.
“The corporate heartbreak of millions of unyielding grassroots workers of the AIADMK remains an inexhaustible vessel. A powerfulness centre that has hopped crossed aggregate governmental parties implicit the past 10 years conscionable to put and accumulate powerfulness is present making hollow remarks astir our cadres,” Mr. Udhayakumar told reporters successful Madurai.
Mr. Udhayakumar pointed retired that 68.5% of the full voting colonisation successful Tamil Nadu formed their ballots against the DMK. He slammed the TVK for creating a “mirage of despair” astir the AIADMK when, successful reality, the TVK had lone captured a 34.5% portion of that anti-incumbency sentiment, which is obscurity adjacent a mandate to assertion implicit authorization oregon State governance.
“A enactment that hasn’t afloat secured nationalist assurance to presume State powerfulness is actively executing a horse-trading theatre connected weekends and holidays, boasting that ‘merger ceremonies’ volition proceed connected Saturdays and Sundays,” helium added.
Issuing an ultimatum, the erstwhile Minister stated that the two-crore-strong cadre basal of the AIADMK, down to the astir mean grassroots worker, volition retaliate legally and politically if this illicit poaching cognition (”Aal Pidikira Velai”) continues nether the guise of providing governmental asylum.
He reiterated that victories and defeats person ne'er deterred the AIADMK, and that their committedness to nationalist work remains unshakeable nether the enactment of Edappadi K. Palaniswami.
“If you persist successful acting arsenic an ideological force and tracking our loyalists, you volition person to look terrible and convulsive governmental backlash from millions of heartbroken yet resilient enactment workers,” Mr. Udhayakumar said.
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