A faction of the AIADMK – led by CV Shanmugam – extended support Tuesday to Tamil Nadu’s ruling coalition headed by Chief Minister Joseph Vijay’s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam. Shanmugam told reporters he plans to meet the chief minister later today. He pointed to a string of electoral defeats suffered by the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam over the past decade – three at the hands of arch-rivals Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and a fourth, last month, inflicted by the TVK – as his motivation for the shift. “We need to revive the party… must discuss its future,” he told the press, while also calling out AIADMK boss and ex-chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami for having considered an alliance with the DMK – a politically unprecedented partnership, one that would have up-ended decades of fierce, sometimes violent, rivalry – to prevent the TVK from establishing its government.
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