Chennai: Tamil actor, choreographer and actuality present contestant Gayathri Raghuram joined the AIADMK Friday after a gathering with get together basic secretary Edappadi Ok. Palaniswami.
The choice to hitch the AIADMK was a pure selection, Raghuram advised ThePrint, including that it was a celebration she “grew up with”.
Raghuram had give up the BJP final 12 months, after eight years with the get together, citing state get together chief Ok. Annamalai as the explanation. In a publish on X, she had stated she was not given an “opportunity for enquiry, equal rights” within the get together, including that ladies “are not safe” underneath Annamalai’s management.
She had additionally accused him of chasing away “true karyakartas”.
In November 2022, Raghuram was suspended for six for allegedly bringing disrepute to the get together. Earlier that 12 months, she had voiced issues over a leaked audio the place BJP chief Trichy Suriya Siva was purportedly heard talking in an unparliamentary method with a girl get together functionary.
Chatting with ThePrint in March 2023, Raghuram had referred to as her suspension an injustice, and talked about plans for a padyatra to “spread awareness about women’s rights”.
‘AIADMK family’
Gayathri Raghuram represents the third era of her household in movies in addition to the AIADMK. Her nice grandfather, director Krishnaswami Subrahmanyam, and her father, choreographer Raghuram, had been near the AIADMK as properly, she stated.
“My great grandfather K. Subrahmanyam, a director from the 1930s, was very close to MGR ayya (sir) and knew him from the start of his career. For Jayalalithaa Amma, my father Raghuram did a lot of shows and campaigns and brought in a lot of people from the film industry into the AIADMK,” she added.
Her resolution to hitch the BJP at a younger age got here quickly after her father’s demise, she stated, including that it was pushed by “a lack of awareness about politics”.
“But it was a lesson. I really respect the leaders I worked with in the party like Tamilisai Soundararajan, Pon Radhakrishnan, H. Raja, and Vanathi Srinivasan. I looked up to Narendra Modi ji and had joined the BJP,” she added.
She stated the “BJP is now doing cringe fanaticism and religious politics which is affecting the peace in the country, and this is what is driving people away from them”.
The AIADMK, in the meantime, “has been integral in the development of the state”, she stated. “Even after the recent rains and floods in the state, many have been missing the previous AIADMK government, as their handling of the situation was better.”
She described former CM Palaniswami as a “humble” and “charismatic” individual. “EPS is very polite, and a better administrator. Simple and affectionate towards the party cadres… The AIADMK will do very well in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls,” she added.
(Edited by Sunanda Ranjan)
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