If there is one seat that a cross-section of the PMK’s rank and file believes the party has a real chance at winning, it is the Dharmapuri Lok Sabha seat, where Sowmiya Anbumani, PMK founder S. Ramadoss’s daughter-in-law and party president Anbumani Ramadoss’s wife, is contesting from.
While the PMK’s cadre believed they would have a fighting chance to win seats by allying with the AIADMK, the decision of the party’s leadership to join hands with the BJP, and contest as part of the National Democratic Alliance, had caused widespread resentment among some sections of them.
Amid reports that the party’s lower level office-bearers could throw in the towel or work ‘tactically’ with the AIADMK, the leadership chose to field a ‘star candidate’, Ms. Sowmiya Anbumani, though a political novice, to enthuse the cadre.
