India, April 22 -- AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami on Tuesday claimed that the DMK hatched a plan to split his party, but it was successfully negated. Addressing a poll campaign in his native Salem district on the concluding day of campaigning for the Assembly polls scheduled on Thursday, he also questioned the ruling DMK on the investment scenario.

The AIADMK chief charged DMK president MK Stalin with trying to "break" the AIADMK earlier. "When I was chief minister (2016-21), I faced many issues. Stalin hatched a plan to break our party, but we shattered that plan into pieces", he said.

Reiterating that this Assembly election is a contest between a "single family" that survives by "exploiting" Tamil Nadu and the people ...