TURMOIL WITHIN NTK RANKS, DMK LURING RENEGADES

THE recent churning within the Naam Tamilar Katchi (NTK), wherein several functionaries, calling out its chief coordinator Seeman's "autocratic" attitude, have called it quits, now has the ruling DMK and its ally, the Tamizhaga Vazhvurimai Katchi, rallying behind them in a bid to induct them into their fold.

- K EZHILARASAN

While several NTK functionaries have severed ties with the party in the past as well, the recent months have witnessed a jump in instances of members across the state walking out alleging a lack of democracy.

"Seeman addresses NTK as 'his' party and expects all others to obey him without question. It is not his party in the first place as many of us jointly built it from scratch," echo several of the members who have now dissociated themselves from the party.

NTK functionaries argue that the desertion by cadre was engineered by the DMK in a bid to weaken them.