The strategy he used, it turns out, is marriage diplomacy.It all happened around the timeon August 22 saying they had lost confidence in the chief minister. Dhinakaran had asked Sundaram to accompany the rebel MLAs during their visit to Raj Bhavan. I refused to go along with the rebel MLAs because my brand of politics is different. Sundaram had even defied former chief minister J Jayalalithaa and maintained contact with Dhinakaran when she threw the entire Mannargudi clan out of the AIADMK in December 2011. Whatever be the compulsion for the 19 MLAs to stay in Coorg, once they land in Chennai, they will support the government".

Source: Times of India September 17, 2017 03:03 UTC