Friday, March 20, 2009

'Coming Back' Politics

 Rebel MDMK leaders join DMK

With Tamil Nadu facing the parliamentary elections in just two months, leaders of various political parties and leaders who had quit parties are aligning themselves under two banners, as usual – AIADMK and DMK camps. The MDMK is with the AIADMK this time, but not as a whole, since the party lost some of its important leaders split over the issue of aligning with Jayalalithaa since Aseembly elections in 2006. The three famous leaders that the MDMK lost until now are Gingee Ramachandran, former Minister of State for Finance, L. Ganesan, Member of Parliament elected to Lok Sabha from Tiruchchirapalli and M Kannappan.

On 17 March, Gingee Ramachandran and L. Ganesan joined the DMK in front of the party’s President and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi along with their supporters in Kalaivanar Arangam on the Wallajah Road in Chennai.

The entire stretch of Wallajah Road and parts of Mount Road near the venue were posters and hoardings showing Gingee Ramachandran wishing DMK leaders.

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