Ex-AIADMK minister joins DMK

Ex-AIADMK minister joins DMK

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:16.08.2020

Former AIADMK health minister V S Vijay on Saturday joined the DMK in the presence of party president M K Stalin. He later unleashed a scathing attack on the present AIADMK leadership, calling it weak and subservient to the BJP government at the Centre.

“After the demise of former chief minister Jayalalithaa, there is no strong leadership in the ruling party. The dual leadership, which has scant regard for the party’s ideology, is hurting the party’s interests,” he said. The present leaders of the AIADMK are “puppets” in the hands of the BJP, he said.

“The Centre had usurped several of TN rights. Admissions in state-run medical colleges were usurped through NEET. Chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami is not doing anything to protect the interests of the state. Leaders were keen on promoting their own political future,” said Vijay, who had joined the AIADMK in 1977. Vijay was health minister for 2.5 years in the 2011-16 AIADMK government. After Jayalalithaa’s death, he was in AMMK before returning to the AIADMK.