India, Oct. 14 -- Tamil Nadu's ruling Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) would not actively seek defections from the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), but would consider the matter if legislators chose to leave their party over differences with its leadership, state health minister K G Arunraj said on Wednesday.

His remarks come amid an ongoing legal dispute over AIADMK legislators who resigned from the Assembly and joined the TVK led by chief minister C Joseph Vijay earlier this year.

Speaking to reporters at Kilpauk Medical College in Chennai, Arunraj said the TVK had no targets for attracting opposition legislators. "See, we don't have any targets... We don't have any mission in this. When those MLAs, because of the fact...