Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Saturday said the issue of alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party would be taken up only at the time of elections.
“There are no elections now. How can you talk about it? When that occasion arises, we will consider it,” he told reporters in Sunguvar Chatram on his way to Vellore.
On Friday, Dairy Development Minister K.T. Rajenthra Bhalaji said there would be nothing wrong if the ruling party were to align with the BJP for the local body polls.
In a release, M. Thambidurai, propaganda secretary of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (Amma, Puratchi Thalaivi Amma) announced that the organisation would hold meetings all over the State on five days to mark the birth anniversary of former Chief Minister C.N. Annadurai. The meetings would begin on September 15 and go on till September 22.
Jakkaiyan removed
Meanwhile, the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (Amma)’s sidelined deputy general secretary T.T.V. Dhinakaran announced that Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) S.T.K. Jakkaiyan, who crossed over to the camp led by Mr Palaniswami on Thursday, former Minister Thoppu N. D. Venkatachalam, another MLA P.M. Narasimhan and Member of Parliament A.K. Selvaraj were among those who had been removed from the post of organising secretaries.
