DHINAKARAN TRYING TO SPLIT AIADMK: TN CM

KRISHNAGIRI/SALEM: Continuing his attack on AMMK leader TTV Dhinakaran, Tamil Nadu chief minister K Palaniswami on Wednesday accused him of conspiring to break the ruling AIADMK, but asserted his dreams will not fructify as the party will remain united.

The AIADMK will never allow “one family to rule” the state, Palaniswami, on a campaign tour ahead of the assembly elections likely in April, said.

Some conspired to wrest control of the party but the efforts have to be thwarted by the alert ruling party workers, Palaniswami said at an election rally in Krishnagiri in Western part of the state. Later, speaking to reporters in Salem, he asserted nobody can create “even the slightest split” in the party.

“When I became CM in 2017 we were giving good rule. Some then tried to wean away a few of our MLAS from us...he has started again. You know who it is — TTV Dhinakaran. He was not in the party for ten years as Amma had expelled him even from primary membership but somehow he came back. Today he is conspiring (against AIADMK),” he alleged.