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Chennai, Jun 20 (PTI) With about ten months to go for Assembly polls in Tamil Nadu, main opposition AIADMK is in a disarray as several party loyalists have switched sides to ruling DMK after being disillusioned with the functioning of the party''s high command. However, AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa seems unperturbed by the desertions as she has maintained she was not worried about these "excess baggages" since the party''s strength lay in its grassroots level workers who are basically anti-DMK. The continuing exodus has left the party short of leaders, especially those credited with "excellent" organisational skills. The local strongmen, who switched sides, are reaping rich rewards in DMK. Former AIADMK ministers T M Selvaganapathy and K P Ramalingam, who quit the party to come under the fold of DMK, have been rewarded with Rajya Sabha seats by the ruling party. Anitha S Radhakrishnan was elected from his Tiruchendur constituency on a DMK ticket after he walked out of AIADMK. The latest to switch sides is former Minister S Muthusamy, once a confidant of Jayalalithaa and her tour manager. Muthusamy, considered a strong man in Erode district, was expelled for "anti-party activities" after he questioned Jayalalithaa''s style of functioning. A confidant of AIADMK founder M G Ramachandran, Muthusamy was the transport minister from 1980 till the former''s death in 1987 and health minister in Jayalalithaa''s first term as chief minister from 1991-96. (More) PTI SA VS.
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