Chennai, Sept. 9 -- Both the Left parties, the CPI and the CPI-M, which had been extending outside support to the Vijay government, stayed away from the second meeting of the allies of the ruling TVK which began on Wednesday evening after pledging their continued support to it.
The meeting was expected to decide on giving a final shape to the alliance as a new Front with a new nomenclature.
CPI State Secretary M.Veerapandian and CPM State Secretary P Shanmugam said since both the CPI and CPI-M are not part of the government, they have decided not to participate in the meeting, to be chaired by TVK Founder and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Vijay. Both the parties have also conveyed their decisions to the TVK.
Both the leades also made it clea...