Coimbatore : Pataali Makkal Katchi (PMK) State vice president, Pongalur R Manikandan Monday announced his resignation from the post and primary membership of the party, protesting against the party’s alliance with AIADMK and NDA.

Announcing this at a press meet here, Manikandan said that despite criticizing AIADMK and its government for the last eight years, particularly the party youth wing leader Anbumani Ramadoss, it had joined hands with AIADMK for the coming Lok Sabha elections,

Both Ramadoss and Anbumani have betrayed hundreds of workers by doing this, he said.

“This was not a natural alliance, as described by Ramadoss, but a business alliance,” he alleged and said that the people will totally reject the party in the elections.