ERODE: The Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) has said it would contest the upcoming Tamil Nadu Assembly elections “independently” and there won't be any “last minute change” to the party's decision. PMK founder S Ramadoss addressed reporters saying, “We have no second thoughts... will contest independently and there will be no last minute change in our decision.” The party will release the candidate list for all 234 seats at an 'apt' time, he said.
PMK had contested the 2014 Lok Sabha elections as a part of the BJP-led NDA. Initially resolved to forge an alliance for the state elections, it later changed its stand in September, saying it would contest alone. The party also announced its youth wing chief and Ramadoss' son Anbumani Ramadoss as its 'chief ministerial candidate' but later said parties which accepted it as the leader of the alliance, are welcome to join hands. It also had recently offered to give 'deputy chief minister post' to the BJP, if the party-led alliance came to power.
Ramadoss said PMK would contest all 234 seats on its own and emerge victorious in at least 120 constituencies, and form the government. When asked if the party would change its stand again, he said it was firm on contesting alone and there would be no change in the last minute.
