Mr. Annamalai said the people of Tamil Nadu will soon teach a lesson to the DMK, which according to him was acting in arrogance and avenging the BJP for criticising the DMK’s “corrupt and inefficient” government.

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Mr. Ramachandran recalled that the DMK’s founder C.N. Annadurai, in 1956, decided in favour of his party contesting in the general elections after an internal poll held among members of the organisation.

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