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The AIADMK Member of Parliament and erstwhile Deputy Speaker of Lok Sabha M. Thambi Durai, connected Friday (May 8, 2026), expressed the anticipation that the enactment wide caput Edappadi K. Palaniswami would travel backmost to power.
Talking to journalists extracurricular the residence of Mr. Palaniswami, the AIADMK seasoned said during the predetermination circuit of the wide secretary, the nationalist sentiment was evident successful favour of his party’s instrumentality to power. “I anticipation this whitethorn happen,” Mr. Thambi Durai observed, hastening to adhd it was for Mr. Palaniswami to instrumentality a telephone connected the question of an confederation betwixt the DMK and the AIADMK.
He was responding to a question connected the anticipation of the truce betwixt the 2 Dravidian majors.
The erstwhile Deputy Speaker was the 2nd elder person who chose not to disregard the speech of a spot up betwixt the 2 parties. On Thursday (May 7), erstwhile Health Minister S. Semmalai, aft calling connected Mr. Palaniswami, said that his enactment person would beryllium the “king and not the kingmaker.” He would instrumentality a “firm and bully decision” connected the contented of confederation betwixt his enactment and the DMK.
To different question whether the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK)’s person K.A. Sengottaiyan was making an effort to woo a conception of the AIADMK’s newly-elected legislators, the erstwhile Minister dismissed it arsenic a substance of speculation and answered that his party’s legislators were “not naive” to beryllium carried distant by immoderate specified move. “They are each bound by the wide secretary’s word.”
