Tamil Nadu polls: AMMK to release election manifesto on March 12

Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (AMMK) led by T T V Dhinakaran, nephew of V K Sasikala, will release its election manifesto for the April 6 Assembly election on March 12. Dhinakaran said the manifesto will be released by him at a public meeting that will have AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi and other alliance partners in attendance.

Dhinakaran, whose AMMK scored 5.25 per cent votes in 2019 Lok Sabha polls, had on Monday announced that his party will contest the April 6 election, notwithstanding his aunt Sasikala's appeal to all true loyalists of late Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa to “unite” and bring “Amma's rule.” The same day, he also announced an alliance with AIMIM and allotted three seats for the party.

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Speaking to reporters here, Dhinakaran dismissed as “non-implementable” and “false promises” announcements by DMK and AIADMK that they would disburse “rightful pay” every month to women heads of families.

“Are these promises implementable? Why are they cheating? Already the state is staring at a debt of over Rs 5 lakh crore and how will these promises see the light of the day. These parties are promising everything just to come to power. It shows their desperation,” Dhinakaran said.

“We will also try to announce candidates by March 12 and we are planning to introduce our candidates at the meeting,” he said.

AMMK led by Dhinakaran was brought into AIADMK by Sasikala just hours before she left for Bengaluru to surrender before authorities at the Parappana Agrahara prison in February 2017.

After the defeat, Dhinakaran went into a shell and has hardly addressed any public meeting in the past year, though other parties like DMK, AIADMK, and MNM have already launched their election campaign.