Public sentiments for AIADMK''s return to power: MP Thambidurai

AIADMK MP M Thambidurai on Friday said public sentiments in Tamil Nadu were in favour of the party returning to power and exuded the hope that the organisation would be at the helm with gods grace. Declining to comment on the speculation over a post-poll pact with archrival DMK, he said he could say for certain that public sentiments were for the AIADMK to come back to power in the state.

AIADMK MP M Thambidurai on Friday said public sentiments in Tamil Nadu were in favour of the party returning to power and exuded the hope that the organisation would be at the helm with ''god's grace.'' Declining to comment on the speculation over a post-poll pact with archrival DMK, he said he could say for certain that public sentiments were for the AIADMK to come back to power in the state. ''That is the feeling... there is public sentiment that AIADMK has to come to power. Whenever my leader Edappadi K Palaniswami visited them, public showed their emotions... that may happen in due course of time with god's grace,'' Thambidurai told reporters here. The senior leader indicated that things would become clear in due course of time and that he hoped good things to happen. ''My party, my leader will come back (to power),'' he said. Palaniswami, he said would do good to the people and provide good governance when he becomes chief minister, the Rajya Sabha MP added. The AIADMK which finished third in the April 23 Assembly election secured only 47 seats in the 234-member House while its rival TVK led by Vijay won 108 seats. The DMK had won 59. No political party had managed to obtain a simple majority on their own to form the government. Fueling speculation of an alliance in view of hung assembly and also to keep its MLAs-designate together, the AIADMK leadership has moved the newly elected members to a resort in neighbouring Puducherry.