Sengottaiyan resigns as MLA, meets Vijay ahead of joining TVK

The 77-year-old leader arrived at the TVK headquarters in Panaiyur with a group of supporters, including former MP V Sathyabama, and was received by Vijay himself, according to news agency PTI.

The party founder welcomed Sengottaiyan with a yellow-red TVK shawl, noting “Anna’s” five decades in public life.

Sengottaiyan, a long-time MGR loyalist and former state minister, had entered politics when M G Ramachandran founded the AIADMK in 1972 after breaking away from the DMK and its then president M Karunanidhi.