Dhinakaran dismisses talk of AMMK joining AIADMK-led front

Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (AMMK) general secretary T.T.V. Dhinakaran on Tuesday dismissed the talk of his party joining the front led by the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK)-led front. Replying to questions from journalists on reports of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) exerting pressure on the AIADMK to accommodate the AMMK, Mr Dhinakaran termed them as “speculative”. He said that as decided by the general council of his party last week, his party would head a coalition to make all the efforts that were aimed at preventing the DMK from capturing power again which, he called, the “sole objective” of his party. He and his party’s functionaries were in touch with “several and important” parties.