Dhinakaran snubs Annamalai’s efforts, says ties not feasible

CHENNAI: Days after former state BJP chief K Annamalai’s discreet meeting with AMMK leader TTV Dhinakaran at the latter’s Adyar residence, urging him to return to the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), Dhinakaran on Wednesday declared categorically that it was ‘not feasible’ so long as AIADMK General Secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami remains the alliance’s chief ministerial candidate.

“Annamalai and others are well aware of the reason for the AMMK’s exit from the NDA. Though he requested me to reconsider, I made it clear that there is no question of returning to the alliance while Palaniswami continues as long as Palaniswami is the CM candidate or the deciding force,” Dhinakaran told journalists in Chennai on Wednesday.

He further remarked that the party is ‘no more AIADMK’, which was f