About 12,000 persons join AIADMK

About 12,000 functionaries of other parties including those from DMK joined AIADMK in the presence of party supremo and Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa here.
A total of 11,967 persons from opposition parties like DMK, DMDK and TMC enrolled themselves to the primary membership of AIADMK in the presence of Jayalalithaa at a function here.
Welcoming the functionaries into her party's fold, Jayalalalithaa said their faith in AIADMK "will never go waste," and that they had a good future in it.
She said AIADMK was a political movement with "true democracy," and that her party strives to ensure the all-round development of the state.

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Among those who joined AIADMK were ex-DMK MLA and the
party's former North Chennai District Secretary V S Babu, and Iniyan Sampath, brother of former TNCC President EVKS Elangovan.
Sampath was earlier running a small outfit, Tamil Desiya Katchi, which he has disbanded.