Chennai:, Nov. 7 -- Manoj Pandian, a sitting MLA who was expelled from the AIADMK in 2022 for supporting O Panneerselvam (OPS) joined the ruling DMK on Tuesday in the presence of party president and chief minister MK Stalin. Pandian resigned as an MLA later in the day as a legislator elected from the Alangulam assembly constituency in Tirunelveli district.

Pandian is also the third leader from the opposition AIADMK to join arch rival DMK ahead of the 2026 assembly elections in the past few months after Anwar Raajah and V Maitreyan, quit the AIADMK blaming the party's alliance with the BJP and joined the Stalin-led party. "I decided to join the DMK because chief minister MK Stalin is rooted to the Dravidian ideology despite relentless pre...