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Tamilaga Vazhvurimai Katchi laminitis and Panruti MLA, T. Velmurugan, connected Sunday (March 22, 2026), announced his party’s exit from the ruling DMK-led confederation successful Tamil Nadu accusing the confederation person of displaying “big brotherly attitude.” Mr. Velmurugan was seen arsenic the Vanniyar look of the DMK-led Secular Progressive Alliance. The enactment was unhappy with the connection of a azygous spot arsenic fixed to it successful 2016.
Adressing journalists successful Chennai, Mr. Velmurugan said helium volition instrumentality a determination connected the aboriginal people aft consulting with Periyarist organisations, smaller Tamil nationalist outfits and different outfits that enactment for mean people.
No to NDA
“We person taken this determination trusting the judgement of Tamil people. I americium officially stating we volition not diagnostic successful the NDA,” helium said.
Mr. Velmurugan added, “We placed our 10-point demands to the DMK but they person shown a large brotherly cognition towards us. They are incapable to judge that we are placing demands earlier them... erstwhile different bigger parties successful the confederation haven’t done thing successful that regard.”
Mr. Velmurugan specifically focussed connected DMK’s reluctance to perpetrate to providing 10.5% interior reservations for Vanniyars wrong the Most Backward Classes (MBC) quota and refusal to collate applicable caste information regarding the practice of Vanniyars.
Mr. Velmurugan charged the DMK has succumbed to the pressures of bureaucrats “influenced and guided by RSS ideology” successful not conducting caste-wise census.
