Chennai, Aug. 11 -- The talk and reports of AIADMK and its arch-rival DMK have joined together has wounded me a lot, Party General Secretary and Legislature Party Leader Edappadi K Palaniswami said, even as the DMK too chipped in during the debate inthe State Assembly, terming the reports as false.

Speaking on the debate on the maiden General and Agriculture budgets presented by the ruling TVK, EPS stoutly denied that both the Dravidian majors have joined together.

"It wounds me a lot. There is no truth in it", he said, while reiterating his party's stand that it was always opposed to the DMK and recalled the reason for which the AIADMK was founded by late leader MGR.

"We have not come together...such reports hurts me a lot", he said.

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