The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which is in alliance with the CPI-M in Tamil Nadu, has categorically stated that the party would not accept PV Anvar, an Independent MLA from Kerala who won on Left support.
Anvar recently raised allegations against Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and was promptly expelled from the CPI-M parliamentary party he belonged to.
The estranged MLA, who has announced that he will float a new political party, was in Chennai on Saturday and met with a few DMK leaders, including minister Senthil Balaji. There were rumours that Anvar would become part of the DMK.
The Kerala DMK unit also proposed to the top leadership to include Anvar in the party. DMK leader and party spokesperson TKS Elangovan told media persons that the party would not include Anvar as he was expelled from the CPI-M parliamentary party.
Elangovan also said that Anvar has regularly criticised CPI-M leader and Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. This will be a major setback for PV Anvar, who was trying to join the DMK, but the party’s political stand has thrown a spanner in his move.
However, Anvar has also met Electricity Minister Senthil Balaji, a powerful DMK leader in Western Tamil Nadu who is very close to Chief Minister MK Stalin.
It remains to be seen whether Balaji will pressure Stalin for Anvar’s entry into the DMK. Sources in the DMK told IANS that the party would not include Anvar as the DMK has excellent rapport with the CPI-M leadership. K.R. Ramanandan, a retired professor of political science and social activist from Chennai, while speaking to IANS, said, “DMK is a political party which gives undue leverage to its allies and will never include a person like Anvar who has been vehemently criticising Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan.”
–IANS
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