CHENNAI: The Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) continued to make noises indicating an imminent end to its fateful alliance with the DMK at a meeting of the party’s Chennai district general council on Sunday. Speakers at the event reflected the vitriolic employed by their leader S Ramadoss that the PMK’s woeful showing in the recent Assembly elections was not a reflection against the party, but the DMK.“Any party that stood against the DMK would have won, and any party that stood with it would have lost,” said a resolution released after the meet. It also noted that a party as small as the Puthiya Thamilagam had won more than 50 per cent of the votes polled in constituencies it had contested.The meet, attended by top PMK leaders as Anbumani Ramadoss, party president GK Mani, senior leader A K Moorthy, and Chennai district secretary M Jayaraman, concluded that a final decision would be made at the PMK’s state general council meet on July 27 in Chennai.The PMK also talked itself into a corner as far as alliances in the near future are concerned by attacking both the DMK and the AIADMK, criticising the Dravidian parties for ‘making the people lazy’ by doling out freebies.They also launched an attack against their biggest threat, the DMDK. The Vijayakanth-led party’s growth has eaten into its bastion in the Vanniyar-dominated belt in the northern and eastern parts of the state. The PMK, which at one time prided itself at always picking the right alliances, has fallen on bad times electorally in recent years. After breaking out of the Congress-led UPA at the Centre and the DMK-led DPA in Tamil Nadu just ahead of the 2009 Lok Sabha polls, the party switched sides once again after a poor showing in the AIADMK-led front. That move also backfired, leaving it with a paltry three seats in the newly constituted TN Assembly.
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