DMK, Rajini skip Kamal’s consultative meet on Cauvery

The meeting was attended by TTV Dhinakaran’s Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (AMMK) and Dr S Ramadoss-founded Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) besides some farmer’s bodies. Stalin had earlier said DMK and its allies, including the Congress, had decided not to attend the event as there was “no need” to do so. Responding to the abstention of DMK, Kamal said Stalin might have said so because “of a lack of understanding over what we had planned to do today.”

“If he had understood it, we believe he would not have said so,” Kamal, flanked by PMK leader and its Lok Sabha MP Anbumani Ramadoss and AMMK functionary and former MLA Thangatamilselvan, told reporters.

Asked about Rajinikanth not attending the event, the MNM founder said he had wanted the former to participate.

“When I invited him (over the phone) he said I (Kamal) had started a party but he was yet to and therefore how could he attend the event. That was his view. My view is that he could have come,” Kamal added.

He said such meetings would continue and expressed hope that Rajinikanth would attend them in the future.

When reporters asked if there would be any alliance between the PMK and the MNM for the local body polls, Ramadoss replied in the negative. saying politics was not at all discussed in the meeting. “The deliberations revolved around farmers and Cauvery and how to save them,” he said.