Pattali Makkal Katchi leader S. Ramadoss has said that the DMK if it allies with DMDK can never win elections.

Dismissing a question with reference to a possible alliance of both parties especially after the impromptu meeting of DMK treasurer M.K. Stalin with DMDK president Vijayakanth at Madurai airport recently, Mr Ramadoss said the DMDK would not have secured the Opposition party status on the floor of the Assembly had it not aligned with AIADMK in the Assembly polls.

“The DMDK could not have won even a single Assembly seat,” he told reporters in Madurai on Tuesday.

Recently, Stalin and Vijayakanth exchanged pleasantries at the Madurai airport, which took the functionaries of both the parties by surprise.

With Stalin waiting at the lounge to board a flight to Chennai, the actor-turned-politician who arrived after attending a function in Virudhunagar, volunteered to meet him.

The meeting that lasted for about half-an-hour assumed significance as it came in the wake of the suspension of Vijayakanth from the state Assembly after he was locked in a row with chief minister J. Jayalalithaa and some of his men joining the ruling party.

Commenting on the possible realignment of parties following these recent developments, Dr Ramadoss, whose party is at loggerheads with DMDK that has eaten into PMK’s Vanniyar votebank in the northern belt, its stronghold, gave the credit to AIADMK for DMDK’s victory in the polls.

“He could have neither won in Rishivanthiyam nor become the opposition leader if it were not for his alliance with AIADMK,” the PMK leader said.

However, he did not spare the DMK. “It (the DMK) tried to strike an alliance with DMDK for the Assembly elections but to no avail.”