CHENNAI: Challenging DMK leader M K Stalin to expel him from the party, Thousand Lights MLA K K Selvam on Wednesday called upon
DMK functionaries to join the BJP, charging that there was no future for functionaries above 55 years in the Dravidian party. He was speaking at the
BJP state headquarters,
Kamalalayam, after taking part in a function organised to celebrate laying of foundation stone for the Ram Mandir at Ayodhya.
Selvam said his own fate should be an eye opener to all. Those who continue to remain in the DMK should be ready to suffer, he said. He had met BJP national president JP Nadda in Delhi on Tuesday. BJP national general secretary Muralidhar Rao, state president L Murugan and vice president V P Duraisamy were present on the occasion. After meeting Nadda, Selvam had denied that he was joining the BJP. But the DMK immediately removed him from all party posts and suspended him from the party.
“They (DMK) issued me a show-cause notice today. If they have guts, they can expel me from the party,” said Selvam, apparently with a view to continue as an unattached member of the assembly.
“I became an MLA to serve the people of the constituency and not to listen to them (Stalin’s family),” he said. Charging that dynastic politics and family’s interference was at play in the DMK, he said initially, he used to listed to Karunanidhi, then his son Stalin and now grandson Udhayanidhi. He expressed disappointment over not being given the DMK district secretary post after the demise of J Anbazhagan.
Interestingly, BJP V P Duraisamy once again sought to clarify that Selvam had not visited the party state headquarters to join the BJP.