Sunday, April 9 2006 15:29 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Chennai: Former Speaker of the Tamil Nadu Assembly Sedapatti R Muthiah today (Apr 09, 2006) joined the DMK.

An AIADMK strong man and once close to Jayalalithaa, Muthiah was the Speaker of the Assembly from 1991 to 1996.

A former Lok Sabha member, Muthiah kept himself away from the AIADMK after the last Assembly polls in 2001.

He joined the DMK in the presence of party President M Karunanidhi at the DMK headquarters here.