Suspended DMK Leader KP Ramalingam Joins BJP In Chennai

Chennai: Former DMK MP, K P Ramalingam joined the BJP on Saturday (November 21) and he said he would try to convince the expelled Dravidian party leader M K Alagiri to join the saffron party.

Ramalingam joined the BJP in the presence of national general secretary and Tamil Nadu in-charge, C T Ravi and Tamil Nadu unit president L Murugan at the party office here ahead of the visit of senior leader and Union Home Minister Amit Shah to the metropolis.

The former MP of both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha said he would try to convince Alagiri, whom he supported to the hilt while in the DMK to join the BJP adding however a decision has to be taken only by him.