In a major shock to ADMK leader Edappadi Palaniswami, a senior party leader is all set to join DMK. The development has become crucial for the current ruling party, the ADMK leader would be bringing several functionaries with him from the ADMK's stronghold of the Kongu belt to the DMK. It will become a major switch-over witnessed by the ADMK since the 2021 assembly election defeat. 

According to our sources, ADMK leader Sindhu Ravichandran will be joining the DMK in the evening hours of Friday or on Saturday morning. Sindhu Ravichandran is a native of Gobichettipalayam and he had served as one of the ADMK secretaries in Erode and also had served as the district secretary of Jayalalithaa Peravai. In the previous ADMK regime, Ravichandran had served as the Chief of the SIDCO board. 

Ravichandran had then been serving as the state secretary of the ADMK's trade wing. The sources say that he has been in dissent with the ADMK leadership after the party's debacle in the recently-held assembly polls. With the dissent, he has decided to quit the party and join DMK and his entry would be crucial for DMK to establish the party's stronghold in the Kongu belt which is ADMK's citadel. 

Ravichandran would be bringing several ADMK leaders to the DMK including a former panchayat chairman, four panchayat councillors, over ten heads of cooperative societies, and district leaders. The sources say that along with Ravichandran, 19 ADMK functionaries will be joining the DMK, which would collapse ADMK's stronghold in Erode. 

ADMK had enjoyed significant victories in the Kongu belt which covers the districts like Erode, Salem, Tiruppur, and Coimbatore. In the assembly polls, several senior leaders including Edappadi Palaniswami had contested from these districts and won the race. DMK had faced a major setback in these districts and now, Ravichandran's exit and joining the DMK had shocked Edappadi Palaniswami and senior leaders amid facing intra-party furore triggered by VK Sasikala's audio politics.