Axed DMK leaders to shift allegiance to AIADMK

Five months after they were suspended from the DMK, former party satraps in the southern districts, Karuppasamy Pandian and Anitha R Radhakrishnan would formally shift allegiance to AIADMK in the presence of party general secretary and chief minister J Jayalalithaa soon. Radhakrishnan, who contested on a DMK ticket in the 2011 assembly election, represents the Tiruchendur constituency.