Chennai, May 29 -- With the crucial Assembly elections less than a year away,
the simmering differences in the Vanniyar-dominated Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK's),
first family, deepened further on Thursday as tensions escalated between its founder
Dr. S. Ramadoss and his son and Rajya Sabha MP Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss.
The differences between had widened to such an extent with Dr Ramadoss openly
admitting that he had made a grave mistake by making Anbumani as the Union
Minister.
PMK is a key political player in Tamil Nadu wielding considerable clout among the
Vanniyars in Northern districts like Villupuram, Cuddalore, Dharmapuri, Krishnagiri
and nighbouring districts.
The fresh internal political crisis in the family culminated in the re...