Tiruchy: In a significant development, the 'Amma Maakkal Munnetra Kazhagam (AMMK)' deputy general secretary T.T.V. Dhinakaran has ruled out the possibility of merging his party, a breakaway group, with the parent party, the ruling AIADMK.
This comes in the wake of the Chief Minister Mr Edappadi K Palaniswami's renewed recent appeal that all 'Amma' loyalists should return to the mother party to strengthen 'Amma's rule' in Tamil Nadu.
Mr. Dhinakaran told newsmen at Tiruchy on Friday that the 90 per cent of the cadre and followers of late Chief Minister J Jayalalitha and MGR "are with us only" and the rest of them will also join the AMMK shortly.
Mr. Dhinakaran claimed that once the present AIADMK Government in Tamil Nadu was unseated, "then there will not be AIADMK party".
He implied that it would become a redundant outfit when out of power.
Referring to the DMK president M K Stalin's declaration that the Congress president Rahul Gandhi will be the Prime Ministerial candidate, he termed Mr Stalin's action as 'childish'.
Mr. Rahul Gandhi himself had said that if the alliance party accepted him as Prime Ministerial candidate unanimously, only then he will accept that post.
Moreover, Mr. Stalin's remarks will indirectly help the BJP, besides exposing his 'underground links' with the BJP, Dhinakaran added.
To a question on expulsion of Thiru O. Raja from the AIADMK, Mr. Dhinakaran said that the acts of omission and commission of the family members of the Deputy Chief Minister, Thiru O Panneerselvam, was well known.
