Gujarat, UP, MP netas join Jayalalithaa

Chennai: Signalling its pan-India expansion, members of various parties from Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat  joined ruling AIADMK on Thursday in the presence of party supremo and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa.

A total of 201 leaders and members of parties such as Congress, Samajwadi Party and JD(U) from Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh received AIADMK membership cards from Ms Jayalalithaa at the party headquarters here, an AIADMK release said.
UP JD(U) unit general secretary Rakesh Kumar, NCP leader Yogendra Kumar Pandey, SP Muzaffarnagar district secretary Bhopal Shaini and UPCC member Sanjay Shaini were among those who joined the AIADMK and the initiative for this was taken by RS MP V. Maithreyan, it said.

The development comes amid calls for a larger national role for Ms Jayalalithaa after the LS elections and days after she unveiled her party’s manifesto assuring to raise I-T exemption limit to Rs 5 lakh and extension of freebies to the entire country.