All India Puratchi Thalaivar Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam is Sasikala's New Party
The new party's symbol will be 'coconut grove', which symbolises unity that she has always strived for, Sasikala told reporters.
Chennai: Ousted AIADMK general secretary V K Sasikala, who unfurled the flag of her new party on February 24, said the party would be called Anaithindia Puratchi Thalaivar Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (APPTMMK) and its candidates would fight the coming elections under the coconut grove symbol.
Sasikala had unfurled only the flag with images of C N Annadurai, M G Ramachandran and J Jayalalithaa to announce her plans for the new party at an event organized at Kamuthi in Ramanathapuram district to mark the birth anniversary of Jayalalithaa.
Though Sasikala was expelled from the AIADMK by the party under the leadership of Edappadi K Palaniswami, she was projecting herself as a member of the party without even joining the Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (AMMK) launched by her nephew T T V Dhinakaran, who was also expelled from the AIADMK.
Since all her efforts to get readmitted into the AIADMK did not fructify, she has launched the new party with the intention of fielding candidates on her own. However neither of the two major coalitions, one led by the DMK and the other by the AIADMK-BJP combine have not yet accommodated her party into their fold.
