Villupuram MP Ravikumar tells HC he is a member of the DMK

Erode MP Ganesamoorthy, too, had claimed to have relieved himself from MDMK

After Erode Member of Parliament A. Ganesamoorthy denied being a member of the Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK), Villupuram MP D. Ravikumar has now told the Madras High Court that he belongs to the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and not Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) as claimed by a public interest litigant. In a counter affidavit, Mr. Ravikumar said: “The petitioner has… made averments on false assumption that a candidate of VCK has been wrongly elected as a candidate of DMK. It is factually incorrect. I am a member of DMK party and my name is borne on the rolls of the DMK party on the date of filing nomination by me on March 25, 2019.” He went on to state that the PIL petitioner, M.L. Ravi of Desiya Makkal Sakthi Katchi, ought to have filed only an election petition if he had any grievance regarding the nomination, and not a writ petition “by assuming and presuming that there is occurrence of misuse of law, illegality, fraud and cheating committed in the general election of 2019.”