Nobody can shake AIADMK as long as PM Modi supports party: Tamil Nadu minister

Expressing confidence that Chief Minister K Palanisamy's camp will stay in power, Tamil Nadu minister KT Rajendra Balaji has said "nobody can shake" the AIADMK as long as Prime Minister Narendra Modi "supports the party".

The 'two leaves' symbol, the state dairy minister said, "The symbol will come to EPS camp... there is no doubt about it."

Addressing a party meeting late on Friday night, he said as long as "Prime Minister Narendra Modi is with us, nobody can shake our party... nobody can destroy AIADMK...."

He asserted that no one could oppose the ruling AIADMK, including the DMK.

He claimed that 92 per cent of general council members supported the Palanisami camp.

The Election Commission had on March 23 frozen the name AIADMK and its election symbol after the factions led by Sasikala and former chief minister O Panneerselvam staked claim to it ahead of the R K Nagar bypoll, necessitated by the death of party supremo J Jayalalithaa.

Chief Minister Palaniswami, however, revolted against Sasikala. On August 21, rival AIADMK factions led by Palaniswami and Panneerselvam merged, ending a nearly seven- month feud in a power-sharing formula in the ruling party and the government in which the latter was made the deputy chief minister.