Independent Puducherry MLA Sivakumar joins AIADMK

Sivakumar has represented Neravi constituency in Karaikal as a DMK candidate three times, winning it for the fourth time in 2011 as an independent.

He had defeated DMK’s Geetha then, and his joining AIADMK could help the party in its poll prospect in Karaikal region.

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Sivakumar had earlier extended support to Chief Minister N Rangasamy in the 30-member Puduchery Assembly but had called on Jayalalithaa last year, triggering speculations that he could join the AIADMK.

Besides Sivakumar, Puducherry Tourism Development Corporation former head Vaiyapuri Manikandan (AINRC), DMK’s G Sundaravadivelu and its labour wing secretary Franklin Francois, former INTUC chief VC Ezhumalai and many others joined the AIADMK here, a party release said.

AIADMK’s Cuddalore (East) District Secretary and Commercial Taxes Minister MC Sampath and the party’s Puducherry Secretary P Purushothaman MLA were also present, it said.

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