The ruling AIADMK has been successful in pulling the young party workers of Naam Tamilar Katchi who are known for rhetoric in their literary Tamil speeches. The AIADMK has plans to field the young workers trained in NTK to target the opposition DMK and interestingly some of them are advocates who had also unsuccessfully contested in the previous Assembly polls. The AIADMK also organised a joining programme for the AMMK workers in RK Nagar on Tuesday. 

The new joinees from NTK also assured the Local Administration Minister SP Velumani of bringing more members from the NTK and other pro-Tamil Nationalist parties. In the past one-year, the NTK has lost more than half a dozen young lawyers and a few district secretaries to the ruling AIADMK party. The AIADMK had also started reaching out to the distressed NTK workers and the latest catch is the party’s state youth wing pasarai secretary Professor Kalyanasundaram. On Monday, Kalyanasundaram joined the AIADMK along with his supporters in the presence of Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami. 

“There is no growth for the secondary level leaders in the party and there is no democracy within the party and that is the main reason for my exit from the NTK. During the initial days, party leader Seeman used to be friendly, but his arrogant approach has made genuine workers leave the party,” Kalyanasundaram told media before joining the AIADMK. Alike Kalyanasundram another NTK pasarai secretary and key campaign speaker Rajiv Gandhi had also left the party. Gandhi is yet to join any party.

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