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Exodus from AIADMK continues, former-3-time Cong Legislator Vijayadharani quits BJP, joins TVK, Stalins terms as MLA shopping spree by Vijay and Xerox copy of BJP

Chennai, June 13 (UNI) Desertions in AIADMK continued with three Ex-MPs N Balaganga, Ms Vanaroja and Ilavarasan, and a few former MLAs quitting the party and joining the ruling TVK, whose Nari Shakthi got a further boost when three-time former Congress Legislator Ms Vijayadharani, walked out of the BJP and following suit on Saturday, even as the prinicpal opposition DMK accused Chief Minister Vijay of indulging in shopping-spree of AIADMK MLAs terming it as a Xerox copy of BJP, which had been doing it in non-BJP ruled states.
Apart from three ex-MPs, former MLAs, former Mayors,Councillors, functionaries of various wings of the AIADMK and also from the DMK, joined the TVK in the presence of Ministers Anand, who is also the General Secretary and Aadhav Arjuna at the party office at suburban Panayur on the ECR.
Meanwhile, DMK President and former CM M K Stalin had a dig at Vijay in the wake of continuous exodus from AIADMK and joining the TVK, and termed it as political shopping spree of MLAs by the Chief Minister. This showed that he has lacked his own confidence and that of those parties supporting his government.
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