Vijay Latest News | Ahead Of Floor Test, CV Shanmugam Signals Independent Stand For AIADMK

A faction of the AIADMK - led by CV Shanmugam and SP Velumani - extended support Tuesday to Tamil Nadu's ruling coalition headed by Chief Minister Joseph Vijay's Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam. The faction leaders plan to meet Vijay today. Shangmugam pointed to electoral defeats suffered by the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam over the past decade - three at the hands of arch-rivals Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and a fourth, last month, inflicted by the TVK - as motivation. "We need to revive the party... must discuss its future," he told the press, also calling out AIADMK boss and ex-chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami for having considered an alliance with the DMK - a politically unprecedented partnership, one that would have up-ended decades of fierce, sometimes violent, rivalry - to stop the TVK from establishing its government.