New Delhi, May 12 -- Senior AIADMK leader C Ve Shanmugam said on 12 May that the party faction has decided to extend support to chief minister Vijay-led TVK in government in Tamil Nadu. The leader said that the party would now focus on rebuilding and strengthening the organisation after the electoral setback

"We founded this party against the DMK. For 53 years, our politics have been against the DMK," Shanmugam, the rebel AIADMK leader, said while explaining the AIADMK's stand after the fractured verdict in the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections.

The AIADMK currently has 47 MLAs. Shanmugham's remarks came amid reports of rift within AIADMK, particularly with party chief Edappadi K Palaniswami, or EPS, over support to Vijay's TVK. EPS, 72, is...