Chennai, July 21 -- In a major blow to the principal opposition AIADMK ahead of the 2026 Assembly election, the party's prominent Muslim face and former Minister Anwar Raajhaa, a vocal critic of the alliance with the BJP, joined the ruling DMK in the presence of Chief Minister MK Stalin on Monday.
Stung by Raajhaa's move to desert the party, AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami (EPS) has expelled him as the party's organising secretary and from the primary membership.
He was disenchanted with the AIADMK's re-entry into the BJP-led NDA and had openly criticised the decision to align with the saffron party in party fora, concerned about the desertion of the party's base among the religious minorities.
Earlier, he had blamed the...