The arrangement would be similar to that of ties between the CPI and CPI(M), they had said. On Monday, OPS called on Dhinakaran and the leaders announced a working arrangement to take on both the Palaniswami-led AIADMK and the ruling DMK in Tamil Nadu. The meeting comes days after OPS launched 'Dharmayudham 2.0' to retrieve AIADMK from current party chief Edappadi K Palaniswami and his supporters. The cat is out of the bag," Palaniswami claimed. The meeting between Panneerselvam and TTV Dhinakaran has given impetus to the speculation that the two leaders may join hands ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. He has named it after former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa. "Whatever we have been saying (on OPS) is true. TTV Dhinakaran, sidelined by the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam or AIADMK, announced the name of his party. "It has now been proven that Panneerselvam is DMK's B-team." The cricket match was just OPS' pretext, he claimed. There is no problem had he watched only the match," he said adding Panneerselvam had a chat with V Sabareesan, son-in-law of Chief Minister M K Stalin, at the sporting venue. The AIADMK chief said his party's stand that OPS functioned as DMK's "B-team" has been proven. "Panruti Ramachandran has no following at all." Ramachandran was with the AIADMK and later switched over to the PMK and then joined the DMDK, Palaniswami said. Palaniswami hit out at veteran politician Panruti S Ramachandran for siding with OPS. In what appeared to be a kind of caution to Dhinakaran, Palaniswami said: "Dhinakaran's camp is becoming empty.the scenario is that of a camel entering the tent (The Arab and the Camel story)," he added. Pointing out that well-known OPS loyalists - R Vaithilingam, Paul Manoj Pandian and J C D Prabhakar - were not present in the meeting between OPS and TTV on May 8 in Chennai, he said: "They are missing". The outcome of their association, hence, would be "zero plus zero", Palaniswami said, apparently hinting that their ties would have no impact or consequence for the AIADMK. "As far as we are concerned, a maya maan (the illusory golden deer in the epic Ramayana) and mann kuthirai (a horse made of sand) have joined hands," he told reporters here.Īlso read: OPS meets TTV is BJP behind the meeting? Therefore, he said two "betrayers have now come together" to forge ties. In his first reaction to them joining hands a few days back, Palaniswami recalled that years ago Panneerselvam (OPS) used to describe Dhinakaran (TTV) as a betrayer and vice-versa. Slamming expelled party leader O Panneerselvam and Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam chief T T V Dhinakaran, AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami on Thursday said the duo coming together would have no consequence or impact for his party.
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